Hi! I was just curious: Is it officially possible to use the directory client for LDAP-related jobs without having an admin server running? I mean most of the things you'll use the client for is LDAP related (adding-removing users, changing attributes, changing ACLs, etc.), and there is no need for an admin server to be running. Unofficially I managed to hack a small groovy script that will run the DS client (inside fedora-ds-1.1.jar) and connect to a server. Browsing the directory and changing attributes works, but adding a new entry, or changing ACL-s will crash the program (but I'm trying to figure out why). You still need an "o=netscaperoot" base in your LDAP directory, but at least the admin server need not be running (we are running a service on a Gentoo Linux based machine with Lighttpd, and don't want to use/install Apache). SztupY console.groovy: // create a fedora-ds-1.1.jar in your home directory containing all classes (merge all jar files IDM uses into one named fedora-ds-1.1.jar) for this script to work import com.netscape.admin.dirserv.DSAdmin; import com.netscape.management.client.console.*; import com.netscape.management.client.util.Debug; import java.awt.*; import netscape.ldap.*; com.netscape.management.client.util.Debug.setTraceLevel(9); DSAdmin d = new DSAdmin(); ConsoleInfo i = new ConsoleInfo("HOST_NAME",389,"USER_NAME","PASSWORD","o=NetscapeRoot"); LDAPConnection c = new LDAPConnection(); c.connect("HOST_NAME",389,"USER_NAME","PASSWORD"); i.setLDAPConnection(c); i.setCurrentDN("cn=SERVER_NAME,cn=fedora directory server,cn=server group,cn=HOST_NAME,o=netscaperoot"); i.setAdminOS("Windows"); // in Windows d.initialize(i); Component cc = d.getCustomPanel(); d.select(null); d.run(null);