User manual

Chapter 5: Administration Site

118 Cobalt Qube 3 User Manual

2. Conﬁgure the settings in the LDAP Import table.

• Enable. Click the check box to enable the Qube 3 as an LDAP server.

• Base Distinctive Name. The base distinctive name (Dn) of your user

directory. For example, o=My Organization, c=US.

• Email Domain Name. (optional) This option allows you to alter the

domain name of the email messages exported in your directory. If the

name of this machine is mail.company.com, but receives mail for

@company.com, you can set the email domain name to company.com.

3. Click Save.

Conﬁguring your LDAP client

When your standard LDAP client is correctly conﬁgured, you can access user and

group information on the Qube 3. You must set up your client to authenticate with

the Qube 3 as a valid user.

In Administration > Users and Groups > LDAP Directory, select a Base

Distinctive Name (DN) under which to export. For example, you could enter

“o=Cobalt, c=US”.

The following procedures describe two sample setups. It should be a similar

procedure to conﬁgure other LDAP clients.

Netscape Messenger on Macintosh

To conﬁgure your Netscape LDAP client:

1. Open the Netscape Messenger window.

2. Select Communicator > Address Book. The Address Book window opens.

3. With the Address Book window active, select File > New Directory. The

LDAP Server Properties window opens.

4. Fill in the following ﬁelds:

• Description. Enter a name for the directory.

• LDAP Server. Enter the fully qualified domain name of the Qube 3.

• Search Root. Enter the value(s) that you entered in the Base Distinctive

Name field in the Administration > Users and Groups > LDAP

Directory on the Qube 3.