Operating System Requirements
Installing Third-Party Utilities
You need an UNZIP utility to unpack the directory server software. There are
many commercially licensed, free and shareware tools available, such as PKZIP or
Winzip. Note that shareware unregistered versions of PKZIP 2.70 maintain a
TCP/IP connection to an Internet advertising service, and so may not be suitable
for installation on this system.
You need to install Adobe Acrobat Reader to read the documentation. It can be
downloaded from this site:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
To edit the server configuration file, you will need a text editor that is capable of
handling large text files (Notepad and Wordpad are not suitable). If you are
already familiar with Emacs on UNIX, a port to Windows can be downloaded from
ftp://ftp.cs.washington.edu/pub/ntemacs/
and commercial text editors available.
To display non-English characters using any Netscape browser, you can obtain
general internationalization advice and more specific information about the
Bitstream Cyberbit font from the following URL:
http://developer.netscape.com/software/jdk/i18n.html
To download the Bitstream Cyberbit font use the following FTP link:
ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/extras/fonts/windows
Before downloading the font, read the
Installing Microsoft Utilities
The following additional utilities are recommended to improve the security of the
Windows NT Operating System. They are not required for the operation of the
Directory Server.
If you have the Resource Kit CD-ROM produced by Microsoft Press, then copy the
utility
The utility is located on the CD in the
later to enable Administrator account lockout.
At this point you will need to install Service Pack 4 or later, if not already installed.
This is needed for the installation of Microsoft Internet Explorer 5. Service packs
can be obtained from
You will need to install Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 or later, as this is needed by
the Security Configuration Manager.
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from the Windows NT Server Resource Kit onto the system.
passprop.exe
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/servicepacks/
. There are many other shareware
and
READMEfirst.txt
directory. You will need this
i386\netadmin
files.
ReadMe.htm
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