[Fedora-directory-users] FDS and AD

[Brian Smith]

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 <rmeggins at redhat.com>
>
>> Sergio Diaz wrote:
>>> Hi Richard;
>>>
>>> Openldap:
>>>
>>>   The  *meta* backend to *slapd(8)
>>> <http://docsrv.caldera.com:8457/cgi-bin/man?mansearchword=slapd&mansection=8>*
>>> 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
>
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