Re: namingContexts not working?

[Jim C <jcllings@tsunamicomm.net>]

Why not just create a Visual Basic script that will configure things for 
them or put up a website where they can cut and paste the information from?

Luke Howard wrote:

> > My understanding is that if a search base is not set (i.e. -b '') one can
> > look at the namingContexts attribute in the root DSE to find the branch
> > names.  Testing with Outlook Express and Mozilla showed that this didn't
> > work (they couldn't find the search base on their own).
>
> Well, if Outlook Express and Mozilla don't look at the namingContexts
> attribute, that's their problem. But you can set a default search base in
> slapd.conf with the defaultsearchbase directive. This will rewrite one
> level and subtree searches of the root DSE to some arbitrary suffix.
>
> -- Luke
>
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