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

[mcs@netscape.com (Mark C Smith)]

Achim Reckeweg Sun Duesseldorf Germany SE wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Joerg Paysen posted a question regarding the setup of openldap to support the
> communicator 4.5. He has had problems to authenticate agianst the directory.
> Has anyone gotten much further?
> I extended the schemata, pointed the browser to the ldap server and can
> authenticate myself against the ldap directory. So far, so good. UNfortunately
> even with the connection (and write access) to the directory the browser don't
> get any information from the directory. It happily uses the local information
> and did not store anything to the ldap server. In the ldap logs you can see that
> indeed the browser contacts the directory even after authenticating. It tries to
> lookup some entries which are of course not there.
> I wade through the netscape documentation and it looks to me as you have to have
> a software called mission control desktop to set up the directory. It looks like
> you have to populate the directory at first. I assume that it's possible to set
> it up manually but I havn't found any pointer yet.

Try this document:

    http://help.netscape.com/products/client/communicator/manual_roaming2.html

It looks useful (although I haven't myself tried to follow the steps it contains).
I located the document by choosing "Reference Library" from Communicator 4.5's
"Help" menu.

-Mark