Overview

The supported multiple domains refer to domains in an ADS forest. Domains from different forests are not supported.

This refers to the domain that you first configure using the LDAP-UX setup tool right after choosing Windows 2000 ADS as your directory server. This is also the only one you configure if you just choose a single domain to store your POSIX information. When LDAP-UX retrieves POSIX information, the local domain is always the first domain searched. If the entry is found in the local domain, search stops. Therefore, the local domain will be the primary domain that you store frequently accessed information. Its profile configuration is /etc/opt/ldapux/ldapux_profile.bin.

All domains in the forest other than the local domain are referred to as remote domains. When you choose multiple domain support during setup, you will be guided to configure profiles for remote domains. When LDAP-UX cannot find data from the local domain, remote domains will be searched.

This refers to the domain controller, which hosts the global catalog for a forest. The global catalog contains partial information of each domain. LDAP-UX utilizes this feature to find out which domain a queried data belongs to. The root domain is the default GCS.