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System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (DNS, NIS, and LDAP) |
Part I About Naming and Directory Services
1. Naming and Directory Services (Overview)
2. The Name Service Switch (Overview)
Part II DNS Setup and Administration
3. DNS Setup and Administration (Reference)
Part III NIS Setup and Administration
4. Network Information Service (NIS) (Overview)
5. Setting Up and Configuring NIS Service
Part IV LDAP Naming Services Setup and Administration
8. Introduction to LDAP Naming Services (Overview/Reference)
LDAP Naming Services Setup (Task Map)
9. LDAP Basic Components and Concepts (Overview)
10. Planning Requirements for LDAP Naming Services (Tasks)
11. Setting Up Sun Java System Directory Server With LDAP Clients (Tasks)
12. Setting Up LDAP Clients (Tasks)
13. LDAP Troubleshooting (Reference)
14. LDAP General Reference (Reference)
15. Transitioning From NIS to LDAP (Overview/Tasks)
16. Transitioning From NIS+ to LDAP
A. Solaris 10 Software Updates to DNS, NIS, and LDAP
The following table shows a comparison between the DNS, NIS, NIS+, and LDAP naming services.
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LDAP enables you to consolidate information by replacing application-specific databases, which reduces the number of distinct databases to be managed.
LDAP allows data to be shared by different naming services.
LDAP provides a central repository for data.
LDAP allows for more frequent data synchronization between masters and replicas.
LDAP is multi-platform and multi-vendor compatible.
Following are some restrictions associated with LDAP naming services:
Clients prior to Solaris 8 are not supported.
An LDAP server cannot be its own client.
Setting up and managing an LDAP naming services is more complex and requires careful planning.
A NIS client and a Native LDAP client cannot co-exist on the same client machine.
Note - A directory server (an LDAP server) cannot be its own client. That is, you cannot configure the machine that is running the directory server software to become an LDAP naming services client.