From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 14 12:24:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from baygull.rtd.com (baygull.rtd.com [198.102.68.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 070FB14E9C for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 12:24:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from angussf@geoapps.rtd.com) Received: from geoapps.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by baygull.rtd.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id UAA95591 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 20:39:39 GMT (envelope-from angussf@geoapps.rtd.com) Message-Id: <200001142039.UAA95591@baygull.rtd.com> Received: by geoapps.com (1.65/waf) via UUCP; Fri, 14 Jan 00 13:05:49 MST for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Angus Scott-Fleming" X-Organization: GeoApps To: Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 12:48:03 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Directory Services Reply-To: angussf@geoapps.com In-reply-to: <005101bf5cb8$868934e0$1100000a@hotmix.com.au> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12b) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 12 Jan 00, at 12:50, Craig Beasland wrote: > Hi there, > > I have a couple of questions about directory services. > > We have a client who currently uses NDS, can anyone tell me or point me to > somewhere which describes what is "directory services". How does Novell DS > compare to the new MS Active Directory and to LDAP. Depends on who's doing the comparing. M$ has some serious FUD out on this. Novell has some propaganda, too, but it is based on a shipping product with 7-8 years of experience, while MAD is still vaporware (although it may not be by the time you read this). I've looked for a while but can't find a URL to a recent Novell white-paper comparing & contrasting the two. NDS is a database that manages user permissions, printers, queues, disks, servers, applications, and more. NDS will support LDAP so you can run LDAP in conjunction with NDS for LDAP-enabled applications. NDS also supports NT4 right now, so you can manage NT servers from NDS, and it will reportedly support MAD when it ships. support.novell.com/documentation should have some useful info. > Is there some directory services protocol that runs on FreeBSD. So far, > everything that runs on NT (server services I am talking about) seems to run > better on FreeBSD, so why should Novell be any different? Novell is a solid OS. I recently saw a screen-dump of an Uptime screen for a Novell server with 2106 days of uptime. I'm pretty sure someone out there has something for NDS for Linux, but I don't know how portable it'll be to *BSD. Caldera has netware for linux, but it's bindery (pre-NDS) and doesn't work with NDS. --------------------------------------------------------- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApplications, Tucson, Arizona angussf@geoapps.com 1-520-323-9170 / fax 1-208-248-3124 --------------------------------------------------------- Proud user of Pegasus Mail, PM-Burst and Waffle --------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message