~ftp/x500/wax500/README: WaX.500 Microsoft Windows X.500 client/DUA notes for version 1.03 *Description "Windows acess to X.500" WaX500 is an X.500 client (DUA or Directory User Agent) that runs under Microsoft Windows and allows you to query various entries in the X.500 directory. Currently you can look up people, groups, joinable groups, organizations, Documents, and %arbitrary filter%s. This version (1.03) allows you to READ only. Future versions will allow addition of groups, modifications of entries, etc. See also "*Change History" section below. *Installation My suggestion for this release is to make a WAX500 directory and put all these Wax500 things in that directory. The easiest way to do this is to move the WaXR103.exe file to your Wax500 directory and run WaXR103.exe. WaXR103.exe is a self extracting ZIP file. It will unpack all the files named below. I haven't done anything fancy for installation yet, and if you leave it all in one directory, you can remove it all easily. It will create Wax500.ini in you windows directory. If you want to make a program manager icon so you can execute this from windows, you should make the working directory Wax500 (or whatever directory you installed this in). *Files and Directories (d) WaXR103.exe self extracting zip file WaXR103.zip pkzip file containing all files below README this file WaX500.exe executable windows program libldap.dll ldap routines disptmpl.dll display template routines srchpref.cfg config file, what you can search for ldfilter.cfg config file, ldap filter configuration disptmpl.cfg config file, how to display things ldfriend.cfg config file, map to friendly names *Mailing Lists To receive announcements of new releases and such things: if you can join (which you can't yet do from WaX500) join wax500.announce@umich.edu if you want to join, but can't, send email to wax500.announce-request@umich.edu To report bugs in waX.500, send e-mail to: wax500.bugs@umich.edu If you are interested in beta testing new versions of waX.500 or otherwise contributing to the development of waX.500, send e-mail to: wax500.testers-request@umich.edu *Change History 9Aug94 - version 1.03 Lottsa new features. o There's a browser, so you can browse through the X.500 directories of the world and see what's there. o You can copy any information from the result window to the clipboard. o There's a Preferences screen that will allow you to change some of the values stored in your Wax500.INI file. o You can use the browser to change the searchbase used by the finder. o You can display anything you can see in the browser. o There is extensive, context sensitive, help available. *Non-UM sites The libldap.dll distributed above requires the 3.1beta version of the ldap server. You will find this server on terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu in ~ftp/x500/ldap/beta/ldap.tar.Z The indication that you have too old a server is that WaX500 will fail to bind to your server and if you look at the server end says, it can't parse the bind request. I don't think it's safe to use a copy of libldap.dll from another implementation since the underlying data structures have changed. We tried to make an older version of libldap available, but this would have required a different copy of WaX500 that used the older datastructures as well ... we decided not to do this. The default behaviour of WaX500 is to connect to the server machine ldap.itd.umich.edu as "cn=wax500, ou=Miscellaneous Servers, o=University of Michigan, c=US" with a the searchBase set to "o=University of Michigan, c=US". If you are not affiliated with the University of Michigan, and want to change these defaults. 1) run WaX500 once to create the default ini file. 2) exit WaX500 3) edit \windows\wax500.ini 4) in the [Configuration] section, change "LDAPBindAs=" to whatever you want (it's up to you to make sure what you put here will work). 5) in the [Current] section, change "SearchBase=" and/or "LDAPServer=" to whatever you want (again it's up to you to make sure what you put here will work). 6) You can also change the LDAPServer on the fly from the preferences screen of WaX500. 7) I also suggest you NOT change the [Defaults] section, at least until you are sure the changes you made to the [Current] section work. You can always revert to the [Defaults] values in the preferences screen by hitting the "Restore Defaults" button. Or if worse comes to worse, delete the ini file and WaX500 will recreate it. *Updated: README updated 11 Aug 1994 by sgr