Re: NewBie with OpenLDAP

[Adam Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org>]

> I'm a newbiz for OpenLdap that i tried to read about their documents a
> bit that i don't understand about it that how to implement!!! 
> Anyone can suggeste me that how to implement and step of
> imprementaton.
> in my network,I've Samba and SMTP Server and POP3 Server with
> Sendmail.
> How could they go on??

You've got a long road ahead.

Buy a copy of "Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory Services".
Read it, maybe read it again.

Wouldn't hurt to read up on SASL too.

Implement OpenLDAP,  there is a Quick Start guide on the website.

Read the Samba HOWTO Collection PDF.  Everything you need to know *IS*
in there.

Read the Sendmail documentation, with emphasis on
http://www.sendmail.org/m4/ldap.html  Or the corresponding documentation
for whatever SMTP server you prefer.

There are a variety of POP3 services you can use.  Depends on the scale
and feature set you need.  Read *THAT* services documentation (I prefer
Cyrus).

MAKE SURE WHAT YOU ARE READING AT ANY POINT IS *C*U*R*R*E*N*T*!  If it
is talking about < sendmail 8.12.0, or Samba 2.2.x, or OpenLDAP 2.0.x,
just drop it and move on.

Maybe take a look at my LDAP notes -
ftp://ftp.kalamazoolinux.org/pub/pdf/ldapv3.pdf

There is tons of information out there, what you are doing has been done
thousands and thousands of times.  There is also alot of information out
there that just stinks or is very out of date.