A HOW-TO that shows you how to set up a Samba Domain Controller with a local LDAP backend, using CentOS 5.x (tested on 5.3, still successfully running on 5.4). Includes a web-interface for managing LDAP users/groups/etc.
How to replace old LDAP backend with the new OpenLDAP. The article describes the use of backends/overlays provided by OpenLDAP to transform the actual online data in such a way that a simple LDAP search on the whole tree will be enough to get an LDIF file ready for import on the new system.
This post is about using web services for LDAP writes and propose a mechanism (based on the basic principles of the LDAP Synchronization Protocol used by OpenLDAP for replication) to keep heterogeneous data systems synced (in our case a database with an LDAP server).