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  • 1.  Ldap against windows 2003 R2

    Posted Mon October 20, 2008 04:00 AM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    I'd like to use AD as my ldap store for user authorisation. The documentation I found so faor up to AIX 6.1 only supports windows 2003 with unix services. Has anybody got it working with 2003 R2 ? Does IBM intend to support 2307bis schema ?

    Thank you
    Markus


  • 2.  Re: Ldap against windows 2003 R2

    Posted Wed November 12, 2008 09:56 PM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    Good luck with this. We got it working but there were so many bugs that there is no way it could be used in a true production environment. IBM needs to do a lot on the side of AIX / LDAP as even getting an AIX server to use SUN ONE LDAP or OPEN LDAP is a chore with many schema changes. If you really want to use AD for authentication you can use a third party product like Centrify or Vintella.


  • 3.  Re: Ldap against windows 2003 R2

    Posted Thu November 13, 2008 04:49 AM

    Originally posted by: CRM


    WE did try this a while ago, I seem to recall that MS changed something in the 2003 R2 release which broke the integration, the fix for this was in AIX 5.3 TL6 as a minimum.

    If you are at TL6 or later of 5.3 (or 6.1) then it should just work, but I would agree with the previous poster, it took a while to get working and the debugging of problems was not the easiest.

    I seem to recall there was a redbook/whitepaper with this all written up:

    http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247165.html

    Will be interested to hear how you get on as we had to leave this to one side while our estate was updated to TL6.

    regards

    Chris


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