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Table Of Contents
- Symantec pcAnywhere™ Administrator's Guide
- Technical Support
- Contents
- 1. Planning a migration and upgrade strategy
- 2. Creating custom installation packages
- 3. Deploying Symantec pcAnywhere custom installations
- 4. Performing centralized management
- About centralized management
- Managing pcAnywhere hosts remotely
- Installing the pcAnywhere Host Administrator tool
- Adding the Host Administrator snap-in to MMC
- Creating a configuration group
- Adding computers to a configuration group
- Configuring administrator host and remote connection items
- Configuring a host item in pcAnywhere Host Administrator
- Distributing pcAnywhere configuration files
- Managing hosts in a configuration group
- Integrating with Microsoft Systems Management Server
- About the Microsoft Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM)
- About centralized logging
- 5. Integrating pcAnywhere with directory services
- 6. Managing security in Symantec pcAnywhere
- Index
Integrating pcAnywhere
with directory services
This chapter includes the following topics:
■ About directory services
■ Using directory services with pcAnywhere
■ Configuring the directory servers
■ Configuring pcAnywhere to use directory services
About directory services
The directory services capability in pcAnywhere is an example of a Lightweight
Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) client application, which stores and retrieves
information about users. It facilitates looking up host computers that are waiting
for a connection on the Internet or intranet.
The benefit of using directory services with pcAnywhere is increased speed.
Normally, when you launch a remote connection, it scans the network for waiting
pcAnywhere hosts. This can be time-consuming, and the results can vary
depending on the size of the network and whether the host is on a different subnet.
LDAP-registered hosts provide instant results to remote queries.
Using directory services with pcAnywhere
In directory services, the host starts and waits for incoming connections as usual.
At the same time, the host connects to an LDAP server and updates the user's
entry by adding an attribute that stores the current IP address, the computer
name, and the current status of the host.
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