Re: Netscape Roaming Profiles

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

Hi,
Since the Communicator and Directory services divisions don't usually
interoperate with each other, I doubt there is any major conspiracy going
on.

I'm more inclined to lean to the side that it requires LDAP v3 which
Netscape has supported since at least Netscape DS 3.  One reason why I
really believe this is that DS 3 was widely deployed before roaming profiles
appeared in Communicator. If roaming profiles required special extensions to
work, then simply modifying the LDAP schema in Netscape DS 3 wouldn't work.

However, I'm invoking my "Directory Developer Champion" priveleges I have
with Netscape and I'll do my best to find out for sure. As soon as I know
I'll post as much as I can.

Mark


-----Original Message-----
From: shaned@videotron.ca <shaned@videotron.ca>
To: Ray Miller <ray.miller@oucs.ox.ac.uk>
Cc: openldap-general@OpenLDAP.org <openldap-general@OpenLDAP.org>
Date: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 6:03 PM
Subject: Re: Netscape Roaming Profiles


>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.
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>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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