> -----Original Message----- > From: Marvin T. Pascual [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 12:30 AM > To: PLUG Mailing List > Subject: [myplug] [plug] [ OT ] LDAP Inquiry > > > Guys, > > Can you please explain to me clearly what's the use of LDAP > and when to use Are you familiar with NDS of Netware? If so, then you know it. It's a Directory Services. Layman's: a) we have a building, 3 floors b) we have engineering on 2nd floor c) and there's an EPSON LX-80 printer being used by engineering With Directory Services, you can locate the object without knowing where it is located. This is just a very simple example. You can use it also for creating yellow pages. http://www.anywho.com/ Good thing about ldap is that it uses TCP/IP for it's transport. You can store any stuff on it, jpeg and so on. I used it before for my roaming netscape bookmarks. Currently, I'm using it as the backend authentication for Checkpoint-FW1. Have you heard of Bigfoot Internet Directory Service, InfoSpace Business Directory Service, Switchboard Internet Directory Service, VeriSign Internet Directory Service, etc? These are samples of DS and it uses LDAProtocol. Btw, LDAP was based on X.500. > it, and what's the difference between LDAP and Relational > Database? Also, > can you recommend a good Open Source LDAP besides OpenLDAP > and it's site > where I can download it? Search keyword at google: ldap umich mit > > I'm still confused with LDAP. All I know that LDAP is a > Hierarchical or > Tree Model and is best for static information. What other > concepts do you > know about it? Where can I get some > concepts/documentations/manuals on > LDAP? >From what I've read before, it can support 50 million users per ldap server. I hope, I didn't confuse you more. :-) You can ask Mike Maravillo, he's the LDAP guru. Btw, I haven't heard from him for a long time. Hey Mike, what's up? Onie _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
