Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 28, 2006 11:02 PM
The problem is that the examples that you site--Novell eDirectory and Microsoft's Craptive Directory--are not Free. OpenLDAP is...as is Fedora (formerly Netscape) Directory Server, for that matter.
So, why aren't some application vendors supporting RFC-compliant (i. e. not just Microsoft's) LDAP?
The problem is that OpenLDAP can be a real pain in the keester to implement, and that's bad, because OpenLDAP+Samba is a terrific replacement for the Craptive Directory, with similar scalability. It's been available for years, but precious few organizations use it because their Windows admins can't handle setting it up.
What we need are user-friendly interfaces that allow, say, a Windows administrator (I refuse to call them "engineers") to set up and deploy Samba+OpenLDAP with similar drag 'n' drop ease that you do with the Craptive Directory today. I can do it, but I have yet to meet anyone else other than John Terpstra himself (he came to our LUG a while back) who can do it, too.
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Your examples are non-Free
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 28, 2006 11:02 PMSo, why aren't some application vendors supporting RFC-compliant (i. e. not just Microsoft's) LDAP?
The problem is that OpenLDAP can be a real pain in the keester to implement, and that's bad, because OpenLDAP+Samba is a terrific replacement for the Craptive Directory, with similar scalability. It's been available for years, but precious few organizations use it because their Windows admins can't handle setting it up.
What we need are user-friendly interfaces that allow, say, a Windows administrator (I refuse to call them "engineers") to set up and deploy Samba+OpenLDAP with similar drag 'n' drop ease that you do with the Craptive Directory today. I can do it, but I have yet to meet anyone else other than John Terpstra himself (he came to our LUG a while back) who can do it, too.
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