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Ok, I'll show my ignorance...please help...?
Ok, I'm rushing, I know, but I want to get this to the point quickly where I
know whether it's going to be suitable for my needs so that I know whether to
continue down this road or look elsewhere (wherever that might be, and my
ultimate goal here is to fight the possibility of us putting up an Exchange
server).
So far I've grabbed openldap 1.2 and installed it on a redhat 5.2 system. Or
at least it said it passed all of it's tests. But now what??? This seems
silly, but even it works, what the heck do I do with it now? Is there a
roadmap of how to start using the ldap server that I'm missing, because I
don't see simple solutions to things like how to start an ldap database from
scratch, how to add my first entry, etc. Everything's installed with the
completely unedited defaults, except for changing the "Your xxx" spots in the
slapd.conf file.
The manual page for ldap.conf says:
EXAMPLE
"The SLAPD and SLURPD Administrator's Guide" contains an
annotated example of a configuration file.
But that guide's just from the old umich stuff, right? I've tried half a
dozen different guesses, based on looking at that guide, at the man pages, at
the FAQ on how to set up the first database for the ldap RPM, etc, but nothing
seems to work.
My current slapd.conf is attached. At the moment, all I can get out of the
thing is either "Can't chase referral" or "DSA is unwilling to perform", and
the faqs on each of those messages don't seem appropriate.
Help, please? My ultimate goal is to store our company's internal user
information in an internal ldap database to for use with Outlook Express,
Outlook, and Netscape email clients and to avoid at all costs having to use an
exchange server. At the moment, if we were going to go with a commercial
directory server, it looks like exchange would be the only one that makes
sense. :-(
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Sincerely,
Trever Furnish, t@monster.com
Network Engineer, Monster Ops. Indy
317.347.1323 or 317.710.3787 (cell)