Novell eDirectory and OpenLDAP will work very similarly. I wouldn't
bother with eDir; it's a hog and difficult to debug.
As for replication, we looked at DirXML, which is (a) horribly expensive,
and (b) terribly complicated. We settled on scripting something in
Perl, which
initially just did an
I have 4 freebsd boxes and 1 windows 2000 server box acting as servers for
about 50 windows clients.
The boxes are used for file serving, printing, intranet, database, firewall
etc.
In the future all files will be served by samba and all web pages will be
served by apache but are now served by
