How does iPlanet Portal server support authentication to NT domains/workgroups?

I would recommend reading this ..
http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/portal/30/ag/authctn.htm#754920
One thing that is not specified in the document, you would also need to install samba that comes as a part of the 3 rd party cd toolkit.

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Does iPlanet Portal Server support ipsec (IP Security Protocol)

IPSec operates at the operating system level, not the application level. Solaris 8 supports IPSec so you can use iPSec to set up tunnels between the gateway and the profile server to secure the connection.
Does this answer your question?
Kent

Does the iplanet Portal server support other existing standalone Webservers/application Servers the likes of weblogic, websphere etc?

If so, will the session management aspect be looked after by the iPlanet Portal server?

The new version of Portal (6.0 I believe) will run on weblogic or websphere as well as iAS.
Kent

In terms of efficiency and expandability, how does iPlanet Portal software differ from a portal written in PHP and PERL?

In my opinion the fact that the portal uses primarily JAVA, lends itself to quite a bit of expandability. I think it will be quite difficult for a portal written in PHP (Such as PHP Nuke) to share user session and state information accross multiple machines/instances. The iPlanet portal server has been designed to accomodate this, through the use of specialised session services. The threading model in Java also lends itself to greater efficiency when executing multiple tasks, whereas a portal based on PERL, would have to start a new process everytime a service is requested, which can then become VERY resource intensive.
In terms of expandability, the fact that it is contaned inside a JAVA VM will allow you to develop and deploy alot of custom developed applications for your portal. There is also quite a good portal API for the iPlanet portal server that will allow you to tap into the Logging,Session,Profile and Authentication services provided by the portal.
Hope this helps!

Does iPlanet portal server provide multi language support?

HI There,
You should be able to set up multiple languages based on the user locale. You can have different templates for each locale within your custom template dir. By convention the following is the order when the portal server checks for templates:
1.<dir>_<locale> (the localized, cust. directory first)
2.<dir> (non-localized, cust. directory)
3.default_<locale> (localized default directory)
4.default (default directory)
Each locale can obviously support a different language.
Hope this helps

Has anyone every try using the iplanet portal server radius authentication module with cryptoCard?

We are using the easyRadius server from CryptoCARD. When we run the radius server in debug mode, it appears ips is sending multiple access-request message. Also, the server is coming back with a challenge which we are not expecting.

yes,
we did basic integration where the authentication will be done using siteminder. The trick is to protect the portal server web server and not the gateway. You also need to add a new authentication module for siteminder in the portal using ipsadmin. We are protecting the login html page only. We couldn't protect the desktop because it's built using servlets.

Does iPlanet POrtal Server provide additional language package for a additional price or is it required to be taken from a third party?

The additional language package need not be taken from any third party. I think iPlanet offers language package at additional cost. Still you may get in contact with the Sales Office for more details.
Thanks,
Raj_indts
Developer Technical Support
Sun Microsystems
http://www.sun.com/developers/support

Does the Portal Server support URL masking?

Is there way to block the URL that is being rewritten from showing on the browser address bar?

This is not supported in the current release ..

How do I restrict access by domain and the rest of the world to the documents in the public_html folder in iPlanet Portal Server?

Hello,
We have multiple domains configured in our iPlanet Portal Server 3 demo environment. In addition we are using the gateway.
In one of these domains the userTemplate.html file is tailored to display Macromedia Flash components at dynamic positions on the page. The logical home for these Flash components (since the portal software cannot find them if we simply store them in iwtDesktop) is somewhere below the /opt/SUNWips/public_html directory.
The problem is that once the file is stored here I can access it if I know the url (http://server:8080/file_path) without being authenticated in the domain.
The allow/deny url policy settings are specific to a domain and seem to have no affect on the rest of the world.
Any advice you can provide is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

Joel,
If your intent is to block access to the doc root, you can probably use access control lists (acl) to prevent anyone from accessing the files stored under public_html. You can get more information about how to create ACLs from the following URL
http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/41/ag/esaccess.htm#1005439
You can even set up Basic Authentication for access to the direcory or ip based access or any which way you want. I've personally never blocked access to the doc root in portal, so I am not sure what the impact will be.
Hope this helps!

I want to write a java program that can add a user to a role or sub role to the Profile Database in iPlanet Portal Server 3.0. Does anyone has any idea or a sample program do such thing. Thanks, Tommy

I want to write a java program that can add a user to a role or sub role to the Profile Database in iPlanet Portal Server 3.0. Does anyone has any idea or a sample program do such thing? Thanks, Tommy

// create the user profile, get the handle back,
// and set the membership profile attributes.
ProfileAdmin newProfile = null;
try {
// the users profile name is the domain
// he belongs to plus their userName
// you will request.domain if your doing this from a servlet, domain_name is the domain_name the user belongs too
String profileName = domain_name + "/" + user;
     if (debug.messageEnabled()) {
debug.message("creating profile for " + profileName);
// create the user profile object
newProfile = ProfileManager.createProfile(
getSession(), profileName ,Profile.USER);
UserProfile userProfile = (UserProfile)newProfile;
     // set the role the user is a member of. Default is to set
     // the users to the default role of the domain they surfed to
     StringBuffer roleName = new StringBuffer(64);
// request.domain instead of domain_name if your doing this from a servlet ..
Profile dp = getDomainProfile(domain_name);
roleName.append(dp.getAttributeString("iwtAuth-defaultRole"));
     if (debug.messageEnabled()) {
debug.message("setting role for " + user + " = " + roleName);
userProfile.setRole(roleName.toString());
newProfile.store(false);
} catch (ProfileException pe) {
     debug.error("profile exception occured: ",pe);
return;
} catch (ProfileException pe) {
     debug.error("login exception occured: ",le);
return;
HTH ..

Does iPlanet Calendar Server 2.x (iCS 2.x) support IETF iCalendar standards?

Does iPlanet Calendar Server 2.x (iCS 2.x) support IETF iCalendar
standards?
<P>
iPlanet Calendar Server was designed from the ground up to support
IETF calendar
standards. Its standards-based features make it easier for users to
share
calendaring information across the network. As standards continue to
evolve and
emerge, iPlanet will continue to support for these new IETF standards.
The relevant IETF calendar standards are:
<ul>
<li>iCalendar (RFC2445)
<li>iTIP (RFC2446 iCalendar Transport-Independent Interoperability Protocol)
<li>iMIP (RFC2447 iCalendar Message-Based Interoperability Protocol)
<li>CAP (draft - Calendar Access Protocol)
</ul>

Does iPlanet Calendar Server 2.x (iCS 2.x) support IETF iCalendar
standards?
<P>
iPlanet Calendar Server was designed from the ground up to support
IETF calendar
standards. Its standards-based features make it easier for users to
share
calendaring information across the network. As standards continue to
evolve and
emerge, iPlanet will continue to support for these new IETF standards.
The relevant IETF calendar standards are:
<ul>
<li>iCalendar (RFC2445)
<li>iTIP (RFC2446 iCalendar Transport-Independent Interoperability Protocol)
<li>iMIP (RFC2447 iCalendar Message-Based Interoperability Protocol)
<li>CAP (draft - Calendar Access Protocol)
</ul>

POP3 support with iPlanet portal server

Greetings,
We are looking to use a web client (NetMail lite) or thin client (NetMail
lite applet) with iPlanet Portal Server 6.0 sp3 out-of-the-box that will
support POP3. It appears that NetMail lite used to support POP3, but it
appears to only support IMAP now? Is this true?
We are not using iPlanet Messenger Server, we are integrating with existing
POP3 servers. Has anyone found an iPlanet client for this or used a third
party tool for this?

Mike Mahon wrote:
Greetings,
We are looking to use a web client (NetMail lite) or thin client (NetMail
lite applet) with iPlanet Portal Server 6.0 sp3 out-of-the-box that will
support POP3. It appears that NetMail lite used to support POP3, but it
appears to only support IMAP now? Is this true?To my knowledge, NetMail, either the applet or lite) have never supported
pop3.
>
We are not using iPlanet Messenger Server, we are integrating with existing
POP3 servers. Has anyone found an iPlanet client for this or used a third
party tool for this?The manual talkes about writing netlet rules that lets you your pop3 client,
through the netlet, to access your pop3 server.
Kent
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under heaven: ... a time to love, and a time to hate; a time
for war, and a time for peace."
-- Ecclesiastes 3:1,8

What search engines does iPlanet Portal support

iPlanet Portal Server facilitates search services by integrating iPlanet Compass Server with it.
iPlanet Compass Server has built-in search engine and also Verity search engine forms part of it.
For further references, look it in to the following URL:
http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/compass.html
-SaralaVijay

Crawling iplanet portal server secured content.

Hi, All,
I am new on the iplanet portal server. Try to come up a solution to crawling
the secured content with a valid user name and password. What this the
authentication mechanism of iplanet portal server keep the user's session?
is iPlanet Portal server using cookie to store the session id or pass it
back and forth as a parameter? Where can I find more information about this?
Any response is appreciated!
Hao Huang

currently there is no testing tool available as a part of the product.

How to configure portal server with the Backend Oracle database

Hi Portal Experts,
we are planning to install Netweaver 04s sp stack 9 full java edition with Oracle 8i on windows platform.
we have the installation docs of portal but we didn't have any idea about how to configure Portal server with the Backend Oracle database at the time of installation or after ost installation of portal.can anyone provide the documentation about this or guide me how to achieve this.
PLZ share ur views---your help would be highly appreciable.
Regds
Phani.

HI
if you r working in Sap enterprise portal use for connection url
jdbc:sap:sqlserver://ilsql01.tlv.sap.corp:1433;DatabaseName=Northwind
ilsql01.tlv.sap.corp:1433 this is your portal url with port number
Northwind is your database name.
for dirver you need to give
com.sap.portals.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver
in case if you r working on other than sap say windows along with oracle try to use
Connection URL as jdbc:oracle:<drivertype>:@<database>
Driver name as oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver
ex jdbc:oracle:thick:@localhost:3036:mydb
Oracle implements two types of JDBC drivers:
Thick JDBC drivers built on top of the C-based Net8 client, as well as a Thin (Pure Java) JDBC driver to support downloadable applets. Oracle JDBC drivers are used to create JDBC applications to communicate with Oracle databases.
Oracle extensions to JDBC include the following features:
Data access and manipulation
LOB access and manipulation
Oracle object type mapping
Object reference access and manipulation
Array access and manipulation
Application performance enhancement
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