Re: [Fedora-directory-users] FDS and AD

[Howard Chu]

>  Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:01:55 -0600
>  From: Richard Megginson <rmeggins(a)redhat.com&gt; 
>  Sergio Diaz wrote:
> > Hi Richard;
> >
> > Openldap:
> >
> >   The  *meta* backend to *slapd(8) 
> >
> <http://docsrv.caldera.com:8457/cgi-bin/man?mansearchword=slapd&mansec... 
> > performs basic LDAP proxying with respect
> >        to a set of remote LDAP servers,  called  "targets".   The 
> information
> >        contained  in  these  servers can be presented as belonging to a single
> >        Directory Information Tree (DIT).
> >
> > Its possible with FDS ??
> >   
>  FDS has a chaining backend which allows you to use another LDAP server 
>  to store the data. 
It sounds like the FDS chaining backend is similar to OpenLDAP back-ldap 
and/or the chaining overlay. In OpenLDAP back-ldap forwards a request to 
one other server (at a time; multiple servers can be configured but the 
others will only be used if the first server cannot be contacted). The 
back-meta backend is a superset of back-ldap, it can fanout single 
requests to multiple servers in parallel and aggregate the results. 
(There's also attribute mapping and DN rewriting, but those capabilities 
are no longer unique to back-meta, having been moved into the rewrite 
overlay.) With these modules you can stitch together a variety of 
heterogeneous directories into a coherent virtual directory.

> > Regards!!
> > Sergio
> >
> >   
> >
> > On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 07:25 -0600, Richard Megginson wrote:
> >> Sergio Diaz wrote:
> >>> Hi People,
> >>>
> >>> Its Possible Sync only in One Way ? 
> >>>
> >>> Users Windows AD -> FDS.
> >> No, not really.
> >>> Or the other scenario its like OpenLDAP have a Meta Backend (2 LDAPs, 
> >>> 1 AD), its possible with FDS ?
> >> It's possible. What does the meta backend do?
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Sergio 

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