Two key open source solutions got new versions recently, and Emmett's here to point out the highlights of each. Mainstay open source solutions Samba and OpenLDAP were both updated recently, helping ...

Welcome to the third installment of how to implement a single sign-on and corporate directory system. In this article, we tackle integrating Microsoft Windows clients. There's a lot involved to make ...

So, i'm migrating our samba fileserver from Ubuntu 6.06 to 8.04 and onto new hardware as well and have run into a problem with the valid user directive.<BR><BR>We have samba setup to authenticate ...

Many readers have used our December 2002 article, “OpenLDAP Everywhere”, to achieve unified login company-wide. Since then, OpenLDAP and Linux have progressed. Here, we demonstrate the use of OpenLDAP ...

What looked to be an unobtrusive rack of 1U servers humming along to the InteropNet iLabs engineers’ rock music, actually represented a bit of an integration headache. Within the line of racks that is ...

Could you post the content of the ldif file you are importing? It sounds like the parent (ou=Groups,dc=example,dc=com) doesn't exist in the directory yet.

Business computer networks employ the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, or LDAP, to distribute lists of information organized into hierarchies. To access a network's LDAP services, your computer ...