Installation guide

Populating the Directory Tree
84 Netscape Directory Server Installation Guide • December 2003
5. Restart Administration Server. You can now launch the online help by
clicking any of the Help buttons in the Directory Server Console.
Proxy authorized on Administration Server. If you use proxies for your HTTP
connections on the client machine running Directory Server Console, you need
to do one of the following:
• Remove proxies on the machine running Directory Server Console. This
allows the client machine to access Administration Server directly.
To remove the proxies on the machine running Directory Server Console,
you need to alter the proxy configuration of the browser you will use to run
the help. In Netscape Communicator, select Preferences from the Edit
menu. Select Advanced then Proxies to access the proxy configuration. In
Internet Explorer, select Internet Options from the Tools menu.
• Add the client machine proxy IP address to Administration Server list of
acceptable IP addresses.
Populating the Directory Tree
During installation, a simple directory database was created for you. In addition, a
simple directory structure was placed in the database for you to use. This directory
structure contained basic access control and the major branch points for the
recommended directory structure.
Now you need to populate your database with user entries. There are several ways
you can create and populate your directory suffixes. These are explained in detail
in the Netscape Directory Server Administrator’s Guide.
The main methods are:
• Create a database from LDIF—Use this method if you want to use the sample
directory data shipped with Directory Server, if you are importing entries
from another directory via LDIF, or if you have more than a few entries to
add at once. For more information about LDIF, refer to the Netscape
Directory Server Administrator’s Guide.
CAUTION Adding the client machine proxy IP address to Administration
Server creates a potential security hole in your system.