Novell Home  Mapping CN to Full Name with the Notes Driver
Novell Cool Solutions: Tip By Geoffrey Carman  Digg This -
Slashdot This  Posted: 11 Apr 2007   The default rule included
with the Notes driver (as of version 2.25 of the driver at
least), maps eDirectory CN to Notes Full Name.  The problem is
that Notes uses Full Name as a multi-valued attribute that
includes many useful - and somewhat annoying - attributes,
including every rename that has happened on the user. As an
example, for Bob Smith, the Notes Full Name might contain:  Bob
Smith Bob J Smith  You probably do not want all this synced to
eDirectory in the CN attribute, since eDirectory uses CN as a
naming attribute. Cluttered naming attributes are not great
things to have in your tree.  Also, you may prefer to map
eDirectory UniqueID to the Notes Shortname attribute. Using
UniqueID as the naming attribute would be helpful.   I happen to
not like this default rule in the shipping driver. I had a
chance at Brainshare to ask the developer why it is