LDAP

[Vu Pham]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chong Yu Meng" <chongym at cymulacrum.net>
To: <linux-users at linux-sxs.org>
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 11:05 AM
Subject: Re: LDAP


> Hi Vu,
>
> For your purposes, you will need to decide how you want to setup the
> structure of your directory. You will need to read up on how to design a
> Directory Information Tree (DIT). I was going to explain a little on how
> this whole process works, but I found that the email will probably be
> too long. One book I highly recommend for this is by Novell Press, which
> is titled "LDAP". You should read that up for a quick primer. Then you
> should probably see this URL:
> http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialLDAP.html. You could also
> read up my Step on eDirectory :
> http://linux-sxs.org/networking/edir87_linux.html
>
> You'll probably need about a week to sift thru the information. I spent
> a couple months trying to understand LDAP and directory design.
>

Thanks for the advice. I just ordered an LDAP book from Amazon, and am
reading your article.
It seems not an easy work at all, but it is interesting.

Thanks again,

Vu


>
>
>
> Vu Pham wrote:
>
> >Could somebody please clarify this for me ?
> >
> >I would like to put the address book of Outlook onto a server for
sharing. A
> >search on Google shows that I may need to install an LDAP server.
> >
> >In my case, the address book does not only include email addresses of the
> >people in the company but also email addresses of a lot of people outside
of
> >the company. ( These addresses are from the customers that everybody in
my
> >site needs to access to ).
> >
> >Can I do this with LDAP server like OpenLDAP ?
> >
> >I see the how-to says I need to specify the O= and C= in OUtlook
settings.
> >Does this mean it will restrict the search in that O=/C= only ? Can I
search
> >for addresses outside of the UNC ?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Vu
> >
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