Look here: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/deploy/7.1/deployTOC.html It's a nice, slow intro into a preliminary survey. I also faced some of your dilemmas and reading that helped a lot. I'd suggest keeping things real simple, a multi master setup, tree organized by high level business units. Leave out fancy stuff and don't go too deep, you should be OK for ~70 users. --- Bikerepairman - <bikerepairman at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new at ldap/directory services, and I's like to get some advice setting > up a directory server. > While reading the docs, some thing are clear while other things are not that > clear. I'm at the stage of survey/scheme drawing now. > > The directory server will be used for authenticating and assigning > rights/quota for about 70 users. > This is for a hobby network and we're migrating the servers from windows to > linux. I myself use linux for 1 ? year now. > > What I got so far is the folowing: > 2 domains (one primary, one for experimenting) > 3 servers (file-, gateway/proxy- and web); can be expanded to 9) > 4 user groups (users, companies, power-users and administrators) > 8 services (pop mail, imap mail, sendmail/postfix, website/homepages, ftp, > samba and nfs, dns) > > The organisation (non-profit) is called dins. And we live in the > netherlands. Our top-level name should be o=dins, c=nl. After this I begin > to run in circles. I think I fail to see something. > > Who is willing to help me getting the scheme right and/or discuss it over > the mail? > > -- > Fedora-directory-users mailing list > Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com