[CentOS] RE: Using CentOS as a file server on a win2K domain-- nothing to do with alternatives

[Bryan J. Smith]

Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Back up a step and I think you'd find that those companies
> had mainframe X.500 systems that predate any PC or unix 
> implementations because at the time only a mainframe had
> the necessary capacity.  Some may still be running the
> master copy on mainframes.  Remember that the L in LDAP
> means 'lightweight' which only makes sense in comparison
> to X.500,

If you didn't notice, I _did_ say "DAP" (X.500) in several
places.  Now maybe I wrote only "LDAP" in some places where
I was talking about NsDS, Sun One and other solutions, but
I _did_ say "DAP" for Novell eDirectory (fka NDS), because
it does it.

> and that from the start LDAP was designed to work as a tcp
> front end query mechanism to X.500 directories as well as
> a standalone database for smaller systems.

Right.  Whereas "DAP" can come in many protocol forms.



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