Installing the LDAPUserFolder Product You will need Zope version 2.4.0 or higher (which necessitates Python version 2.0 or higher)! This product does not require any special handling after unzipping and untarring it in the Zope Products directory. You should do something like:: $ cp LDAPUserFolder-xyz.tgz /lib/python/Products $ cd /lib/python/Products $ tar zxvf LDAPUserFolder-xyz.tgz Windows users can use WinZip or similar, it can handle tarred gzip files. Make sure to move the extracted LDAPUserFolder folder to your Zope installation's lib/python/Products-folder. That's all. Do not forget to restart Zope afterwards. **Upgraders beware** In order to avoid problems everyone who upgrades from a prior version of the LDAPUserFolder should delete and recreate any LDAPUserFolder instance they have! **Important Hints** Depending on your choice of Zope install (e.g. compiled from source or binary version) you need to make sure that the python-ldap module (see README.txt) can be found by Zope. The first step after compiling the python-ldap module is to find out if it works correctly by firing up your python interpreter and typing "import _ldap". Then hit return. If no error message shows up the module is compiled and installed correctly. If after correctly installing and compiling the python-ldap module Zope still complains "ImportError: No module named ldap" you need to find the module file (its name is "ldapmodule.so") and manually copy it into the LDAPUserFolder folder in your Zope Products folder. This will be the case with all those Zope installs that contain their own python binary, like the Linux binary install. If you for some reason decide to run Zope on a certain OS from Redmond you might have difficulties getting python-ldap in a precompiled version. Barry Pederson found the following website which might help: http://www.it.uq.edu.au/personal/leonard/dc-prj/ldapmodule/ Barry also put all needed components (a LDAP DLL from the University of Michigan LDAP distribution and precompiled python-ldap modules) up in his member area on zope.org at: http://www.zope.org/Members/barryp/win32_ldap This module can be copied into the LDAPUserFolder folder on the file system. If you run the LDAP server on the same machine as your Zope instance and use python-ldap 2.0.0pre1-2.0.0pre4 you might experience severe slowdowns due to a bug in those python-ldap versions. See this URL for more info:: http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/1568/2002/6/0/9027164/ See README.txt for any other dependencies and requirements.