RE: Integrated Directory Service.
- From: "Fox, Kevin M" <KMFox mail bhi-erc com>
- To: "'Jorge Gomes Silva'" <jgs plurimarketing pt>, "'Bruce Stephens'" <bruce cenderis demon co uk>, gnome-list gnome org
- Subject: RE: Integrated Directory Service.
- Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 08:37:57 -0700
I know what you mean. The only thing I miss going entirely to linux is NDS.
gconf will take care of that problem. :)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jorge Gomes Silva [mailto:jgs@plurimarketing.pt]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 2:18 AM
> To: 'Bruce Stephens'; gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject: RE: Integrated Directory Service.
>
>
>
>
> On Monday, August 02, 1999 8:58 PM, Bruce Stephens
> [SMTP:bruce@cenderis.demon.co.uk] wrote:
> > Jorge Gomes Silva <jgs@plurimarketing.pt> writes:
> >
> > > Are there any plans for integrating a directory service
> into Gnome ?
> > >
> > > I think that is a "must" if Gnome wants to find a place in the
> > > enterprise. It also might be useful for the home user if
> you think
> > > about it at an Internet scale.
> >
> > What would Gnome use a directory for?
> Well in Windows you can do things like sharing directories to
> allow other
> ppl to access information in your machine. If you do that
> you'll probably
> want to specify which users in the network will have access to your
> shares/information. You'll need a directory service for that.
>
> I worked with some big companies and one of the things most of them
> demanded was "Roaming/Network user profiles". With Network
> profiles (which
> Windows provides), a user can logon at any computer,
> validates himself with
> a directory service on the network (a.k.a Domain Controller
> in Windows) ,
> and gets its profile from the directory service. In that way a user's
> desktop always looks the same, independently of the computer
> where the user
> logged on. This kind of feature is very useful in bank
> branches where the
> user can logon in different computers at different times.
>
> These are two examples of using a directory service for "desktop
> functions". Other uses may occur, like storing mail addresses
> (important in
> big organizations), etc.
>
> As an additional point, one of the most important features
> that Microsoft
> has been advertising for its Windows 2000 is the "Active
> directory" (I know
> Microsoft may not be a good example...).
>
> >
> > It's clearly the wrong thing to provide one.
> >
> > I can see why you might want a directory to be around, and so you'd
> > want Linux/FreeBSD/etc., to have a directory, but I don't want a GUI
> > to provide one.
> >
> > It would be nice to have a good Gnome directory user agent (using
> > LDAP, presumably), but that's an application. I can also see why
> > you'd want mail user agents (and anything else which wanted email
> > addresses) to be able to use LDAP.
> >
> > I'm less sure that configuration and/or address books should be done
> > using LDAP. I'm sure they will be, but I'm dubious that this is the
> > right thing to use. (An SQL database for address book might be an
> > interesting way to go.)
> >
> >
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