LADAP

HI,

I just do my first steps with Linux (Open Suse 10.3) and I have a
question about OpenLDAP.


I have a computer with 2 network cards.

With one network card the computer is connected with a server (Open
Suse
10.3). This server works as a LDAP-server (User management, home
directories, email...) and the computer as LDAP-client.


The second network card is configured as a private subnet
(192.168.0.0).
In this subnet, the computer is configured as a server including as
LDAP server.

My question:

Can a computer configured for one network as LDAP client and for
another network as LDAP server?

How do I configured this computer?


Thanks in advance

Gerd

Gerd wrote:
> HI,
>
> I just do my first steps with Linux (Open Suse 10.3) and I have a
> question about OpenLDAP.
>
>
> I have a computer with 2 network cards.
>
> With one network card the computer is connected with a server (Open
> Suse
> 10.3). This server works as a LDAP-server (User management, home
> directories, email...) and the computer as LDAP-client.
>
>
> The second network card is configured as a private subnet
> (192.168.0.0).
> In this subnet, the computer is configured as a server including as
> LDAP server.
>
> My question:
>
> Can a computer configured for one network as LDAP client and for
> another network as LDAP server?
>
> How do I configured this computer?
>
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Gerd

The idea of using LDAP is so that there is a single directory that may
be used by the whole network. You should first think about what data you
want to share through LDAP (like user names/UIDs, passwords, address
books etc.) and then implement it on a single server.

Robert