Re: 4.5pr2 roaming profiles and updating ldap.

[Mark Wilcox <mewilcox@unt.edu>]

C. R. Oldham wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> Two questions:
>
> 1) Does anyone have  the details on how I could use openldap to provide
> roaming profiles to Netscape 4.5pr2?

Don't have a clue as to where to start. :) You will need to create all of
the schema information by hand first and then likely need mission control to
modify this.

>

>
>
> 2) Can I use Netscape to update and add entries to an ldap server?  I'm
> thinking about the case where we have a small office and no shared
> addressbook since none of the 4 series of Netscape has provided that
> ability.  I trust everyone in this office to update and add entries to a
> shared addressbook and the most logical place to have them do that is
> the Address Book window in Netscape.  I have ldap working for lookups
> but I have no information on how to do updates or adds.
>

You can't update LDAP directly from Netscape Communicator. You'll need a
gateway of some sort.

Have you checked out Directory server first? Education institutions get it
for free. :) It might be easier to work with roaming prefs for now.

Mark

>
> Thanks.
>
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