<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.10.3"> </HEAD> <BODY> FDS, OpenLDAP and AD One Directory FDS.....i want this directions to... Chaining Backend... Regards, Sergio On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 14:12 -0400, Brian Smith wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> Hello all, I've been working on getting chaining working with an active directory back end for a week now. Has anyone successfully done this or have directions on setting this up? Brian Smith Howard Chu wrote: > >> Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:01:55 -0600 >> From: Richard Megginson <<A HREF="mailto:rmeggins@redhat.com">rmeggins@redhat.com</A>> > >> Sergio Diaz wrote: >>> Hi Richard; >>> >>> Openldap: >>> >>> The *meta* backend to *slapd(8) >>> <<A HREF="http://docsrv.caldera.com:8457/cgi-bin/man?mansearchword=slapd&mansection=8">http://docsrv.caldera.com:8457/cgi-bin/man?mansearchword=slapd&mansection=8</A>>* >>> performs basic LDAP proxying with respect >>> to a set of remote LDAP servers, called "targets". The >>> information >>> contained in these servers can be presented as belonging >>> to a single >>> Directory Information Tree (DIT). >>> >>> Its possible with FDS ?? >>> >> FDS has a chaining backend which allows you to use another LDAP >> server to store the data. > > It sounds like the FDS chaining backend is similar to OpenLDAP > back-ldap and/or the chaining overlay. In OpenLDAP back-ldap forwards > a request to one other server (at a time; multiple servers can be > configured but the others will only be used if the first server cannot > be contacted). The back-meta backend is a superset of back-ldap, it > can fanout single requests to multiple servers in parallel and > aggregate the results. (There's also attribute mapping and DN > rewriting, but those capabilities are no longer unique to back-meta, > having been moved into the rewrite overlay.) With these modules you > can stitch together a variety of heterogeneous directories into a > coherent virtual directory. > >>> Regards!! >>> Sergio >>> >>> >>> On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 07:25 -0600, Richard Megginson wrote: >>>> Sergio Diaz wrote: >>>>> Hi People, >>>>> >>>>> Its Possible Sync only in One Way ? >>>>> Users Windows AD -> FDS. >>>> No, not really. >>>>> Or the other scenario its like OpenLDAP have a Meta Backend (2 >>>>> LDAPs, 1 AD), its possible with FDS ? >>>> It's possible. What does the meta backend do? >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> Sergio > > -- Fedora-directory-users mailing list <A HREF="mailto:Fedora-directory-users@redhat.com">Fedora-directory-users@redhat.com</A> <A HREF="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users</A> </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>