Re: Re: Netscape Roaming Profiles

[Robert Willett <r.willett@linst.ac.uk>]

I've spent a lot of time with trying to get OpenLDAP to work
with Netscape roaming profiles. My problem is that I'm still
learning about LDAP and so don't understand some of the 
technicalities.

I certainly managed to get roaming profiles to upload the info
into the OpenLDAP server. I could see the data moving with the
debug flag and I could query the data using ldapsearch. I could 
not get the info to download back to Netscape. I thought it 
might be permissioning but even after making everything accessible
to everybody it still didn't work.

I have converted an old Netscape DS V3 to work using the 
instructions given by Netscape and it does work. I then downloaded 
the ldif file and tried to upload that. I just couldn't see the 
differences in the two systems. What I would really like to do is
put a packet sniffer on the line and capture just that traffic and 
debug a real Netscape server vs an OpenLDAP one. That would probably
give us enough info to try and debug the code.

I have also downloaded the Linux NS V4 server. It runs but the Java
is not good. It takes a lot of CPU and memory up and crashed regularly 
on me. It is beta so I can't complain. I have roaming working using
the mod_roaming module and LDAP authentication. It works well, is 
fast and reliable and I can edit the files using VI.

> Ray Miller wrote:
> > 
> > I've just had a look through the archives and see that (at least) two
> > other people have run into problems retrieving Netscape bookmarks via
> > roaming profiles held on an OpenLDAP server. Unfortunately, I did not
> > find any answers in the archives! Has anyone found a workaround for
> > this or has everybody given up on it?
> > 
> > The archived articles I'm referring to are:
> > http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-general/9903/msg00043.html
> > http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-general/9906/msg00018.html
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > --
> > Ray Miller <Ray.Miller@oucs.ox.ac.uk>
> > Oxford University Computing Services
> 
> I would really like to know whats causing this. For me, one of the MAJOR
> reasons of using LDAP is to use the roaming profiles in netscape with
> all the bells and whistles.
> 
> Could anyone give a final word on this like is it netscape that is
> not LDAP compliant (so that people have to buy *there* LDAP server) or
> does the LDAP community doesnt want to patch openLDAP to work with
> broken clients or is this an outstanding bug in openLDAP?
> 
> How about d/l the Netscape Server beta for linux and comparing the
> databases (I would do it but i'm quite new to LDAP)?  
> 
> Daniel Shane
> --
> shaned@videotron.ca
> 
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