Re: [PLUG] Centralized Directory

["William H. Magill" <magill@mcgillsociety.org>]

On Saturday, November 9, 2002, at 03:47 AM, Bradley Molnar wrote:
> D'oh, don't tell me that openldap is that hard to configure, a bunch 
> of us
> are about to try to use it to replace a very broken NIS domain.

Compared to NIS, LDAP is a breeze.

But neither one is intuitive... not even Apple's implementation.

(At least not yet. The current release of "Jaguar" for OS X Server is 
much better than any in the past, but it still has a ways to go. The 
next update, currently in "beta" does address a lot of problems, but...)

Sadly, Microsoft's Active Directory structure is "easier" than either 
simply because "it's their way or the highway."

Setting up the LDAP server is actually the easiest part. Getting things 
to work the way people EXPECT them to work instead of how the software 
requires them to work is the hard part. [People can be very 
"non-understanding" when they can't use their desktop because of a 
network problem or because the server is down.]

The biggest problem encountered with LDAP is that it is quite DIFFERENT 
from NIS. You really need to forget and un-learn a lot of things, and 
especially expectations of how things work.

There are a lot of issues, problems and concepts [many which you 
describe]with a centralized computing system that people thinking in 
standalone PC terms don't appreciate.

T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
magill@mcgillsociety.org
magill@acm.org
magill@mac.com

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