Re: Possible to use OID for email address books / distribution lists?

HansF wrote:
> OiD is a standard LDAP v3 conplaint LDAP server. It happens to use the
> Oracle 9i/10g database to store the data and happens to use Oracle-created
> processes to receive LDAP requests and respond to them with data retrieved
> from the database
>
> The challenge is creating or using
> 1) a schema suitable for the application;
> 2) an application that does the right job using the schema.
>
> I'm not sure whether Outlook will create the needed schema on the fly when
> you point to a directory server, or whether it'll gripe about the lack of
> appropriate schema.
>
> If it creates it on the fly, then there should be minimum problem, other
> than providing the initial permissions for the user to connect.
>
>
> It just might be easier on the learning curve scale to do this on
> OpenLDAP. Exactly the same concept, but using OpenLDAP (open source) and
> using the cookbook at
> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/03/27/ldap_ab.html
>

[Quoted] Thanks Hans - I'll give those options a look.. I take it you are back in the soon-to-be-frozen north, or are you back down in lotusland?

Glen Received on Fri Sep 15 2006 - 16:09:48 CEST