Specifications
11 Preface: About This Guide
12 What’s in This Guide
13 Using Onscreen Help
14 Documentation Map
15 Viewing PDF Guides Onscreen
15 Printing PDF Guides
15 Getting Documentation Updates
16 Getting Additional Information
17 Chapter 1: Directory Services with Open Directory
17 Benets of Using Directory Services
18 Directory Services and Directory Domains
19 A Historical Perspective
19 Data Consolidation
21 Data Distribution
22 Uses of Directory Data
23 Access to Directory Services
23 Inside a Directory Domain
25 About the Structure of LDAP Entries
26 Local and Shared Directory Domains
26 About the Local Directory Domain
27 About Shared Directory Domains
28 Shared Data in Existing Directory Domains
28 SMB Services and Open Directory
28 Open Directory as a Primary Domain Controller (PDC)
30 Open Directory as a Backup Domain Controller (BDC)
31 Chapter 2: Open Directory Search Policies
31 Search Policy Levels
31 Local Directory Domain Search Policy
32 Two-Level Search Policies
33 Multilevel Search Policies
34 Automatic Search Policies
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