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aeSLAPD FAQ
This page contains answers to common questions handled by our support staff, along with some tips and tricks that we have found useful and presented here as questions.
SLAPD is available at a nominal charge from this website. The product can be downloaded and installed on any Windows NT, Windows 95 or Windows 98 system. The AESLAPD.DOC describes installation and setup. Since this is compliant with the University of Michigan it handles all LDAP v2 services, plus has important v3 enhancements. AE Inc. support can help you scale your directory to the needs of your organization.
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Stanford University maintains information regarding X.500 and LDAP, the core directory technologies. They are located at URL: http://www.kingsmountain.com/ldapRoadmap.shtml.
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Until recently, LDAP wasn't universally adopted, and vendors used proprietary addressbook servers or information servers. As of Netscape Communicator 4.0, and Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0, the LDAP server is the standard protocol for remote address storage. Commercial services, such as Four11 user LDAP. This aeSLAPD, you can define your own enterprise directory for your organization or private work group.
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Applications Engineering, Inc. (AEInc) is an Internet consulting firm and product development organization. We have developed numerous messaging products for Fortune 100 companies, and built custom enterprise solutions for over a decade.
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SLAPD is the Standalone LDAP Daemon. LDAP is the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. It was developed by The University of Michigan and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as defined in RFC 1777 and (for v3) 2251. It is the TCP/IP standard for directory access, based on the DAP protocol used in the International Standards Organization X.500 specification for OSI protocols, developed circa 1988. Since its inception in 1992, LDAP has emerged as the dominant standard White Pages service to lookup network objects by name. Netscape, Microsoft, Novell and many other vendors have now adopted the standard for their client products to lookup e-mail addresses, phone numbers and other departmental information. Netscape Communicator 4.0 or greater, and Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 both support LDAP servers as remote Addressbook servers. Both these products, and many others work using the aeSLAPD server.
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The aeSLAPD provides you with a means of declaring a single organizational directory and serve it to desktop systems. Users on those systems can update their private information, and import personal snapshots of the names they lookup. This update cycle varies by organization, but it can be uploaded by client addressbooks as often as they want.
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The Learning Edition is fully functional, and has no time-out. It is intended for education and demonstration purposes versus production use, so the default key restricts the number of concurrent users to 5. The minimal production use Office Server key enables 50 users and searches license for 50 entries. The Institutional Server can support 100 users and includes a 100 entry license, on any of 7 servers (if you choose). The Enterprise Server supports 250 users, no charge for stored users, and has no search depth limit, and can be distributed on up to 200 machines in your enterprise. It is used if databases exceed 10,000.
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The Mdaemon mail server from Deerfield Systems can be configured to look-up email addresses by name using LDAP, as well as store incoming addresses in an LDAP server. The configuration details to set this up will work with aeSLAPD and are described here.
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aeSLAPD does't implement SSL directly. We recommend that our customers use SSL Proxy Servers (such as stunnel or sslwrap). We endorse that model, since it is more configurable, offers more flexibility and a uniform security model in customer networks.
Passwords can be encrypted via our ldappasswd utility and referenced with the "{CRYPT}" prefix. This is available with the Enterprise edition, or on request.
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