I have been working on getting ADS to simulate AD, so far I have only had to worry about objectClass group however. I also had to add attributeType samAccountName, and objectGUID. There is the issue that I have not found a way to stop importation of LDAPv3 attributeTypes where the name conflicts with AD attribute types such as memberOf and Member. -----Original Message----- From: akarasulu@gmail.com [mailto:akarasulu@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Alex Karasulu Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 11:09 AM To: users@directory.apache.org Subject: Re: Active Directory simulation This is a great idea. A large majority of LDAP applications will most likely be hitting AD or ADAM in the enterprise. It makes sense to have an AD compatibility mode to mimic ActiveDirectory as much as possible. We have a bunch of low level concerns around compatibility but I don't think we're limited since the ApacheDS design is so flexible. We should have some kind of DirectoryServiceFactory implementation that programmatically configures a new instance of a DirectoryService and or the server itself configured to mimic AD. We can also include in the standalone version of ApacheDS an optional ad-server.xml. Alex On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Valery Tydykov wrote: > Is it possible to simulate Active Directory structure and behavior using > ApacheDS? > This would be great for testing LDAP/AD clients, without using real AD > server. > Valery Tydykov