Contextless Login
Articles and Tips: qna
01 Dec 2002
Q.
People here are asking me about contextless login. We missed this because we skipped NDS 7 and catalog services. We are now on eDirectory v8.662 and TID #10066603 does not recommend catalog services on eDirectory; rather, they recommend using filtered replicas. They further state that the client folk are working on contextless login with filtered replicas. Anyone know the development status of this client feature? Any suggestions for an interim solution?
Connie Client Chatsworth
A.
Dear Connie: I can offer you a couple of possibilities here. I have used this little DLL from a guy in Norway called noctx1.exe that can be found at http://leila.mti.bme.hu/utils/.
Amazingly, the same file has worked from Novell Client v3.2, 3.0 to 3.32 and 4.6 to 4.83sp1. You add a reg key with a list of contexts to check, and it tries them in sequence. It is remarkably fast with our 26 contexts and for the 32,000 users roughly distributed across them. In effect, there is no difference in login time, whether you are in the first or last listed container. This always amazes me!
Also, you can go to Novell's CoolSolutions and grab the LDAP contextless login client extension thing. See http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/.
* Originally published in Novell AppNotes
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