Netscape 4.x + LDAP Roaming Profiles
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Shanker Balan
http://shankerbalan.com/

Changelog:

Tue Apr 29 17:33:52 IST 2003
- Initial commit

Update: Netscape > 4.x do not have roaming support any more and I have moved
onto better browsers like Opera and Geleon. AFAIK, there are no plans for
putting LDAP support back into Netscape7/Mozilla. It would be invaluable for
multi-booting users like me!

Assuming that you have an LDAP server which has been setup to handle Netscape
roaming profiles:

(1) Open Netscape -> Edit -> Preferences -> Roaming User and expand the tree..
Toggle 'Roaming User' and set your username to a valid LDAP DN. If you want
Netscape to remeber toggle the remember password option as well.  

(2) Next we feed in the LDAP server information. Click the 'server information'
tab and toggle LDAP directory server and set the address and User DN details.

The address field and user DN should be in this format -

Address:
ldap://ldap.domain.com/nsLIProfilename=$USERID, ou=Roaming, o=domain.com

User DN:
uid=$USERID, ou=People, o=domain.com

(3) Finally, select the 'items' that you want the LDAP server to remember under
the 'Item Selection'

(4) Restart Netscape for roaming profiles to take effect.

--- Sample LDIF schema for NS Profiles ---

## This is the OU schema
dn: ou=Roaming, o=domain.com
objectclass: top
objectclass: organizationalUnit

## This the user DN schema
dn: nsLIProfilename=shanu, ou=Roaming, o=domain.com
objectclass: top
objectClass: nsLIProfile
owner: uid=shanu,ou=People,o=domain.com

--- Setting up Address book for LDAP ---

(1) Open the address book. File -> New directory and add the reqd stuff

Links:

http://people.redhat.com/alikins/ldap/netscape_address_config.html
http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.0/relnotes/demo/proxy-live.html