Re: Roaming (was: LDAP and e-mail)

["David E. Storey" <dave@tamos.net>]

> in a posting to 'openldap-general@openldap.org' David E. Storey
> wrote that you has authentication problems with openldap and
> Communicator v4.5. With the following configuration I don't have
> authentication problems, and it seems that Communicator can read and
> write to my ldap directory. ( The database is very much bigger and
> there is a lot of traffic between Communicator and ldap.) But when I
> delete my bookmarks.html on disk and start Communicator again the
> bookmarks are not, as I thought Roaming should work, updated. So I don't
> think that I have not understood how Communicator Roaming works...

yeah, the database is *much* bigger now.  The addressbook is, by far, the
largest object. (I only have 14 entries and an ldapsearch on that dn gives
me _one_ result of 3170 lines.  What's up with that?)

> Any hints ?
> This is the openldap configuration as it seems to works for me:

yup, that did it, along with lots of debugging info to figure out why it
wasn't working.

> Apply to slapd.at.conf the following lines:
> attribute       nsLIVersion     nsLIVersion-oid         integer

slapd complained about the integer, so I gave it something else.

I've been trying to justify using LDAP based Directory Services with Linux
in lieu of NIS or NIS+.  With each passing day, I find more and more
answers.  (yesterday, I got qmail to work with OpenLDAP for forwarding
addresses and mail quotas.  today, it's Roaming Profiles!  NIS+, eat yer
heart out!)

thanks!
d