DIRECTORY SERVICES


Planning the LDAP service
A IBM® Lotus® Domino® server that runs the LDAP task functions as an LDAP directory server, ready to process requests from LDAP clients. Such requests can come from any of the popular Web browser clients that have built-in LDAP support to retrieve directory information, or from custom LDAP applications designed to search for and manage directory information.

Some of the questions to ask when planning for the LDAP service are:


Planning directory assistance for the LDAP service

You can set up directory assistance on a server that runs the LDAP service so the LDAP service can extend client LDAP requests to a secondary Domino Directory or to a remote LDAP directory.

Some of the issues to consider with respect to setting up the LDAP service to use directory assistance for a secondary Domino Directory include:


Some of the issues to consider with respect to setting up the LDAP service to use directory assistance to refer LDAP clients to a remote LDAP directory include:
Note The LDAP service, like any Domino Internet protocol server, can use directory assistance to authenticate its clients using credentials in a secondary directory, and to use groups in a secondary directory for database authorization.

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