Allows clients running over a WAN or through a firewall to find servers without specifying the IP address.
Allows clients running over a WAN or through a firewall to find servers without specifying the IP address. It also allows the Locate utility (dblocate) to find such servers.
TCP/IP (server side only)
Having the database server register itself with an LDAP server allows clients (and the Locate utility [dblocate]) to query the LDAP server.
Specifying LDAP=filename turns LDAP support on and uses the specified file as the configuration file. Specifying LDAP=YES turns LDAP support on and uses saldap.ini as the configuration file.
LDAP is only used with TCP/IP, and only on network servers.