Hi, I have now understood the concept of referrals and chasing, However I am struggling with creating a referral entry in my apacheDS DIT, because the documentation for creating referrals is still not available on apacheDS website (maybe I can contribute something if I can get this working)
1.)) I created an entry with following classes :- top, extensibleObject and referral However I am not sure about the format of value string for attribute 'ref' I tried following formats :- ldap://remoteserver:10389 ldap:remoteserver:10389 Remoteserver:10389 But looks like nothing works. Can you please help me with the format of this information or point me to an available documentation on creating referral entry using LDAPStudio. 2.)) One more question here :- If a correct referral entry is made into the DIT, Will the LDAP browser show me the children of the remote context there itself or not ? (I am using LDAPStudio browser) 3.)) Do I need to turn this referral feature on somehow before working on this ? thanks, Nitin Mittal Technology Integration Deloitte Consulting Offshore Technology Group Tel: +91 22 6644-5745 (Direct) Tel: +91 9323624353 (Mobile) Tel: +91 22 6644-5000 (Main) -----Original Message----- From: Alex Karasulu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 10:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Linking apacheDS with another LDAP server I think there is also a referral chaining control out there somewhere or at least some discussion about it. With referrals you still have to chase the referral: one server tells you that you have to contact another server. With this chaining control the original server you contacted (foo) will go out and do the search for the client on bar server. The results are returned to your client as if all the entries came from foo server. I guess this is the silver bullet that you're looking for. But some clients like JNDI can automatically chase referrals I think (don't quote me here) so your client code which uses it does not have to have this logic. So Stefan's remarks below are right on the money. In addition just check to see if JNDI can do automatic referral chasing for you. Alex On 10/11/07, Stefan Zoerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The search term "referral" should help. It is a general LDAP concept for > the requirement you describe, and it is supported (among others) by > ApacheDS. > > See for instance here for a very brief explanation > http://ldapadministrator.com/resources/english/help/la331/ch05s05.html > or give Google a try (so did I for the link above). > > Greetings from Nuremberg, > Stefan > > This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message. Any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. [v.E.1]
