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.
- How
do I build my Directory ?
- Where
can I find more information about Directory standards
?
- Why
doesn't SLAPD work with older browsers ?
- Who
is AEInc ?
- What
is SLAPD and LDAP ?
- When
is it good to refresh my private addressbook ?
- How
do I connect with Outlook 98/Express/Netscape/Pegasus
or other email clients ?
- What's
the difference between the Learning Edition, Office,
Institutional or Enterprise Servers ?
- How
do I configure Mdaemon to use aeSLAPD ?
- What
about SSL and encrypted passwords ?
How do I build my Directory ?
SLAPD is available at a nominal charge from this
website. The product can be downloaded and installed
on any Windows system. The user manual describes installation and setup. Since this
is compliant with the University of Michigan it handles
all LDAP v2 services, plus as of aeSLAPD version 4.1, has important v3
enhancements, like schema import and publishing.
AE Inc. support can help you scale your directory to
the needs of your organization.
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Where can I find more information about
Directory standards ?
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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Why doesn't aeSLAPD work with older browsers
?
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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Who is AEInc ?
APS 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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What is SLAPD and LDAP ?
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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When is it good to refresh my private
addressbook ?
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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What's the difference between the Learning
Edition, Office, Institutional or Enterprise Servers ?
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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How do I configure Mdaemon to use aeSLAPD
?
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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What about SSL and encypted passwords
?
aeSLAPD doesn't implement SSL by default. 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. SSL/TLS is available with the Enterprise edition, or on request.
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