Installation guide

Populating the Directory Tree
56 Netscape Directory Server Installation Guide • May 2002
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 machinerunning DirectoryServer Console. This allows
the cli ent 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 y our 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 i f you want to use the sample
directory data shipped w ith Directory Server, if you areimporting 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.