new to eDirectory - I can't determine base dn

[dgersic]

On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:05:58 +0000, bfriedman2 wrote:

> OK, I am more confused now. I tried connecting with a base dn of "O=DS"
> and I can connect.

Good! If that's how you installed the tree, and it works, then that's
right.


> I have always used a base dn of something like
> "dc=domain,dc=com" with other LDAP systems.

May LDAP systems use a DC object as a container at the top of the tree,
but it's not required. With eDirectory, you can, but you have to create
the tree that way.


> I may have installed eDirectory incorrectly, or configured it wrong. How
> do I specify the domain constituents for Novell in a form like
> "dc=domain,dc=com" ?

With iManager, create dc=com, then create dc=domain,dc=com.


> I am not familiar with Novell's approach to LDAP, and I don't understand
> the lack of dc components.

It's not Novell. It's LDAP. Other systems that assume you'll have a
DC=something are just as valid, but no more correct, than a system that
assumes that you installed it with O=DS, so that's obviously what you
wanted it to be.



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