Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 12:48:03 -0700 From: "Angus Scott-Fleming" <angussf@geoapps.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Directory Services Message-ID: <200001142039.UAA95591@baygull.rtd.com> In-Reply-To: <005101bf5cb8$868934e0$1100000a@hotmix.com.au>
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On 12 Jan 00, at 12:50, Craig Beasland wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I have a couple of questions about directory services.
>
> We have a client who currently uses NDS, can anyone tell me or point me to
> somewhere which describes what is "directory services". How does Novell DS
> compare to the new MS Active Directory and to LDAP.
Depends on who's doing the comparing. M$ has some serious FUD out on
this. Novell has some propaganda, too, but it is based on a shipping
product with 7-8 years of experience, while MAD is still vaporware
(although it may not be by the time you read this). I've looked for
a while but can't find a URL to a recent Novell white-paper comparing
& contrasting the two.
NDS is a database that manages user permissions, printers, queues,
disks, servers, applications, and more. NDS will support LDAP so you
can run LDAP in conjunction with NDS for LDAP-enabled applications.
NDS also supports NT4 right now, so you can manage NT servers from
NDS, and it will reportedly support MAD when it ships.
support.novell.com/documentation should have some useful info.
> Is there some directory services protocol that runs on FreeBSD. So far,
> everything that runs on NT (server services I am talking about) seems to run
> better on FreeBSD, so why should Novell be any different?
Novell is a solid OS. I recently saw a screen-dump of an Uptime
screen for a Novell server with 2106 days of uptime.
I'm pretty sure someone out there has something for NDS for Linux,
but I don't know how portable it'll be to *BSD. Caldera has netware
for linux, but it's bindery (pre-NDS) and doesn't work with NDS.
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