Directory Clients for an Online Phone Book

Netscape Directory Server is an example of a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directory service. Using Netscape Directory Server, you can set up your own directory of employee phone numbers. Chapter 4 explains how to download, install, and configure this server.

Netscape Directory Server provides two simple but useful types of clients: a set of command-line tools and a Web-based interface to the directory. Netscape also provides two SDKs for building your own directory clients: one for Java and one for C/C++/Visual Basic.

The set of command-line tools includes ldapsearch, a tool for searching the directory. If you've installed Netscape Directory Server, these tools are located in the shared/bin ...

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