Ok, this is very cool (IMHO). So I am excited, because I have waited for this moment since the first release of OSX. Finally I got everything working to replace my network NetInfo with LDAP. The new Jaguar LDAP support is great. I just replaced my NetInfo network domain with a central LDAP server running OpenLDAP on Gentoo linux.
Additionally, I set up a DHCP server to serve the LDAP URL. With this setup, a Jaguar client will hook up to the network without any further work on the client required. All the network users, groups and shares are available.
This is a very nice out of the box experience. Getting there on the server side was a little harder, but with OSX Server it should be no pain at all.
Read the rest of the article for a short summary of what was done on the server side to get this working...
Server work:
option ldap-server code 95 = text;
option ldap-server "ldap://myldap.myplace.com/dc=myplace,dc=com";
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http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20020831081548963