LDAP and Roaming profile issues

["Norman Aaron" <naaron@longs.com>]

> Has anyone found any advantages to using LDAP as a roaming
> access server over HTTP?  I have heard that it offers better
> administrative features, maybe I'm alone, but I am not
> seeing any.  Everywhere I look, I see problems with people
> trying to get it to work, and either they are stumped from
> the begining using this documentation:
> http://help.netscape.com/products/client/communicator/manual_roaming2.html
>
> or they get it going, can't get it to sync with what's on
> the local drive.
>
> After a couple days worth of trying, I am still in the
> throes of trying to get our NS Directory 3.1 server
> configured so that it will authenitcate and take the entry.
> I had no problem getting it to work with NS Enterprise 3.51,
> but I am having nothing but a headache with LDAP.  Am I
> right in saying that each of the users have to be activated
> via the directory server before they can use it as a Roaming
> Profile access server.  So this would mean that if we want
> each of our 20,000 users to be able to have raoming access,
> it has to be manually entered?  Can someone please help me
> out.  Thanks in advance.
>
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