LDAP Integration

- LDAP, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, is an Internet protocol that email and other programs use to look up information from a server
- Every email program has a personal address book, but how do you look up an address for someone who's never sent you email? How can an organization keep one centralized up-to date phone book that everybody has access to?
- That question led software companies such as Microsoft, IBM, Lotus, and Netscape to support a standard called LDAP. “LDAP-aware” client programs can ask. LDAP servers to look up entries in a wide variety of ways. LDAP servers index all the data in their entries, and "filters" may be used to select just the person or group you want, and return just the information you want. For example, here's an LDAP search translated into plain English: "Search for all people located in Chicago whose name contains "Fred" that have an email address. Please return their full name, email, title, and description.”
- LDAP is not limited to contact information, or even information about people. LDAP is used to look up encryption certificates, pointers to printers and other services on a network, and provide “single signon” where one password for a user is shared between many services. LDAP is appropriate for any kind of directory-like information, where fast lookups and less-frequent updates are the norm.
- As a protocol, LDAP does not define how programs work on either the client or server side. It defines the "language" used for client programs to talk to servers (and servers to servers, too). On the client side, a client may be an email program, a printer browser, or an address book. The server may speak only LDAP, or have other methods of sending and receiving data—LDAP may just be an add-on method.
- If u have an email program (as opposed to web-based email), it probably supports LDAP. Most LDAP clients can only read from a server. Search abilities of clients (as seen in email programs) vary widely. A few can write or update information, but LDAP does not include security or encryption, so updates
- usually require additional protection such as an encrypted SSL connection to
- the LDAP server.
- While LDAP didn’t bring us the worldwide email address book, it continues  to be a popular standard for communicating record-based, directory-like data between programs.

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- Linux, Windows NT, Novell’s & Windows 95 Network 
- Sharing Printers, Hard Disk, Modem & etc
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- Cost Saving Through Computer Network
- Network Cabling, Firewall setup & Antivirus

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