[THIN] Re: Novell Integration (MetaDirectory)
- From: "Ron Oglesby" <roglesby@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 09:11:45 -0500
Well the long and short is that most clients really DON'T need it even
though they think they do. Most people assume metadirectory will solve
all woes and it wont. If they TRULY use then it is smooth. Single point
for adding users and provisioning etc. The problem is that everything
has to be tied to it. You use it to Push to AD, or anything else that
requires the users. Synchs in multiple directions are terrible. Using a
single authoritative source then pushing from that to your domain is
great. Of course using this authoritative source for authentication
within apps and what not is even better. But since most apps aren't
happy without their own authentication you wind up synching/pushing to
AD and novell and a ton of other systems.
The MS product isn't bad (I mean they bought it from someone else
anyway) and the Sun product is even better as a pure directory. I don't
do a whole lot with either of them mostly I work on the windows and
network side of those projects, but I am in enough design meeting for
them to answer most questions.
Anything specific?
Ron Oglesby
Senior Technical Architect
RapidApp
Office 312.372.7188
Mobile 815.325.7618
email roglesby@xxxxxxxxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
From: Braebaum, Neil [mailto:Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 3:45 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Novell Integration
Just out of interest, Ron, and noting it's a little OT for this list,
have you any general views of MetaDirectory (sort of anything overall /
general really)?
Cheers
Neil
-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Oglesby [mailto:roglesby@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 09 September 2003 18:24
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Novell Integration
MetaDirectory is tooooo much for that.
In yoru case (needing Windows and Netware credentials) you
generally would not use the Netware/ZEN integration fro MetaFrame.
Instead you would put the Netware client on the Citrix server and manage
the citrix servers using windows accounts.
Citrix even states that the Netware ZEN support is only for
environments WITHOUT domains...
Ron Oglesby
Senior Technical Architect
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