Adding users and groups is easy enough through the GUI, but setting access controls can be complicated and confusing, because of the clunky interface and the need to understand LDAP syntax. The online help is good, but overall the experience was somewhat painful. The replication model is very simple, and most companies will opt to use a master directory server, perhaps with feeds to secondary servers in different geographic regions for better performance. You can divide the directory tree among different servers and set up replication rules for them, but this process can get complicated. Directory Server has very simple referral capabilities, which you can manually configure so directory updates and reads can be directed to the correct servers.
Users can search and display the public directory content in a few ways.
The most effective way using Netscape products is the Search Directory option in the Communicator Edit menu. Continues. . .