Re: Internal email for small 400 customer

["John Taylor" <john.taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil" <sublime78ska@yahoo.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 13:34
Subject: RE: Internal email for small 400 customer


> I went all through this and had to abandon it
>
> I wanted the replication job to create ldap entries like c=US, o=company,
> ou=department and was unable to do that when there is only one as/400.
OK,
> that's a limitation that can be coded around.

If I understand you correctly, you wanted the synchronization to
automatically map the department attribute from the system service directory
into the corresponding "ou" within your directory structure, and do the same
for country/company.

That would be mapping an attribute to a distinguished name (DN), which the
simple IBM supplied replication program can't do.  It is limited to
publishing the entire service directory into a single relative DN that you
tailor through OpsNav. That's fine if all users of a single AS/400 belong to
the same department (using your example), but won't work for more complex
scenarios. However, that's the nice thing about an open standard like LDAP -
you can write your own replication program and just run it off the job
scheduler. That would even allow you to accomodate the AS/400 user groups.

>
> In the e-mail client, though (outlook express), very few are usable.  Such
> as department.
>

I don't know what you mean.

The key thing with Outlook Express is that you *have* to define a search
base. If you leave the search base blank, it will actually pass "c=Country"
(where Country is the one defined in your system settings) to the LDAP
server.

> If there's a way to do it I'd like to learn about it.  At the time I could
> find no workable solution that the customer found acceptable.  So they're
> manually maintaining an address book and sending it to everyone.

"that the customer found acceptable" is the key. I'm not sure what could be
worse than manual maintenance & distribution though. :)


John Taylor
Canada



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