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Re: ISC dhcp server and Mac OS X ldap server option flags

On Monday, January 27, 2003, at 04:05 PM, Scott Lawson (scott) wrote:

ie. ldap://ldap.mydomain:389/o=searchbase, o=domain

so it looks like my dns load round robin load
balancing should work quite nicely!

The issue then becomes:

Once Mac OS X knows which LDAP server to look at, where does it get its mapping configuration from?

Mac OS X expects to find an entry at

ou=macosxodconfig,cn=config,dc=example,dc=com

...that has an attribute called "description" that is- rather long- a plist describing the mappings Mac OSX needs to talk to said LDAP server.

Here's the rub- you have to either manually create it, or use Directory Access to write it to your existing server. It's not the most compatible feature, since the IT group that controls the directory server is rarely the same group that controls the macs.

It shouldn't require changing your schema, since the core LDAP schema allows objects of the class organizationalUnit to have an attribute called description. It does, however, require you to change the structure- something that may or may not be feasible in your organization.

There might be a way around this with referrals but I haven't thought about it much.
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