From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 14 12:32:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web1704.mail.yahoo.com (web1704.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B04CE14DDD for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 12:32:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tjarrow3@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 11434 invoked by uid 60001); 14 Jan 2000 20:32:15 -0000 Message-ID: <20000114203215.11433.qmail@web1704.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [207.31.97.178] by web1704.mail.yahoo.com; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 12:32:15 PST Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 12:32:15 -0800 (PST) From: Godzilla Subject: Re: Directory Services To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG http://www.novell.com/advantage/w2k.html That ought to get you the info you want. 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message