How is Fedora Directory Server different from iPlanet and Sun Directory Server?
See History for a history of Netscape, iPlanet, and Sun Directory Server. Since the break up of iPlanet, the products have followed different development paths. However, much of the behavior and configuration are still the same: the configuration backend, schema, monitoring, management tools, etc. There are a couple of significant differences which you need to be aware of. Sun DS 5.2 changed the replication protocol, so you cannot do Sun DS 5.2 style replication with Fedora DS. However, Sun DS 5.2 has a legacy replication mode with which they are able to replicate to their 5.1 and 5.0 servers. This replication mode should work with Fedora DS. Also, Sun DS 5.2 has a different database format, so database files cannot be shared between the two servers. You must export your data to LDIF then import into Fedora DS. There are several other differences but they mostly don’t affect interoperability. Please refer to the Sun DS documentation for more information.
