Re: Roaming access and Suns Dir server...

["Mark Wilcox" <mark@mjwilcox.com>]

Sun will phase out their LDAP server and replace it with Netscape DS perhaps
as soon as the next major release.

Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Willett <r.willett@linst.ac.uk>
To: openldap-general@OpenLDAP.org <openldap-general@OpenLDAP.org>
Date: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 5:23 AM
Subject: Roaming access and Suns Dir server...


>Dear all,
>
>Since roaming access seems to be one of the topics of the day
>and nobody has got OpenLDAP to work, though we all seem to have put
>a lot of work in, the question is what alternatives are there?
>
>There is the mod_roaming Apache module as well as it's offspring
>Apache::Roaming. There is the Netscape directory server, but the
>costs to us seem too high. We've looked at Ldap for NDS from
>Novell but can't seem to understand that. Has anyone looked
>at Sun's directory server? The costs are far lower than Netscape.
>It is LDAP V3 (or claims to be).
>
>As a slight aside I have notice a number of Roaming web sites
>springing up. Does anyone know what systems they use?
>
>Comments etc to the list.
>
>Thanks.
>
>