"If you had access to the command line on a Linux box I could show you
how to display the whole directory." Bryan, do tell, please. Thanks! John
Bryan Smith wrote:
Hey Steve
steve wrote:
I'm trying to set up an ldap address book on a printer / copier we
have from Canon. Its one of those "mother of all printers" that scans,
emails, faxes, cooks your toast, you get the idea.
I am trying on this group because I have tried elsewhere but have not
got any responses. For windows users Im not sure ldap is used much. I
choose a linux site (we do have a linux box) but it is really a
windows question, but I think that linux people probably deal more
with ldap than windows peps. I'm hoping that maybe somone might come
over to the dark side for a moment and provide some help.
Basically when I put in the printer DC=my, DC=domain, DC=com it simply
does not find any address's. I have never used ldap on our network,
but I'm told it is running all the time becasue thats what Active
directories basically uses. I think I have the syntax of the "DC="
string right But it just doesnt work.
Active Directory is X.500 compliant, but some argue that it's not LDAP,
though it is a directory, blah blah. Just call it Active Directory for
simplicity sake; it's LDAP compliant. You may need to use something like:
ou=people, dc=my, dc=domain, dc=com
or
ou=users, dc=my, dc=domain, dc=com
I know the first works in a Unix environment, but the second is more
likely to work on windows. If you had access to the command line on a
Linux box I could show you how to display the whole directory. On
Windows you just click around on the server until you find it.
Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Active
Directory Users and Computers, then click on my.domain.com and it will
show Users to the right. If it's not running, then you might want to
google around to get it up.
You also MUST specify a password for Active Directory, it does not allow
anonymous binding or searching so if you don't have/know the password,
the you're spinning your wheels. Somewhere the printer will ask for a
password.
Besides my quizzing above if there are any obvious signs of error. I'm
wondering if there is some test etc. that can test if the ldap is
running properly and can display email addresses that are on our
Exchange server. Another question, sorry to be so wondering here, but
another question that I have is, Is Ldap a service that must be
running. I keep seeing things on the net eg ldap server. I interpret
this to mean that if you dont have a windows environment like Active
Directory that you must run an ldap server, however I asume that this
is part of Windows server 2003.
Yes you are right, people generally refer to an LDAP server when
speaking of things other than Active Directory...like OpenLDAP. If you
have 2003 Server you have your directory server and you're ready to go.
Active Directory is the service that needs to be running.
Ldap is something I have not delt with so I don't understand all the
parts or parts involved or why it doesnt work for me.
Thanks.
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