PermaLinkQuestion for R5 / ND6 LDAP gurus
posted Tuesday 4th, January 2005
 



A client has a Domino server recently upgraded from R5 to ND6.5.2. This server is running ldap. When it was R5, one could click Start / Run from the Windows desktop, then type ldap://logicalName and press Enter (or ldap://IPaddress), and one could then enter a name in the displayed window and be returned search results from the ldap server. After upgrading to version 6.5.2, if one tries to issue the same search, this error message displays:
LDAP error message
I am a developer. It has been years since I did any administration, and that was only in a backup role. So I am definitely not an expert here. My guess is that they figured I must know the answer to something, so they'd ask me, just in case maybe I had happened to have come across this at some point. Being a developer with deadlines and such, I have not even attempted to research this more than a quick search of the various Notes/Domino support sites. And I have not personally used the ldap service on this server when it was running R5. I typically like to verify everything for myself, and I cannot do that here.

All that being said - or written, actually - if any of this sounds like something you have encountered and solved (or if you have any ideas), please do share your experience. Thanks!
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1. Posted by Tony Kelleran - website09/09/2007 08:42 PM



I've never used LDAP via the start run option, but I figure it might having something to do with the Find People dialog not having a defined Search base. What changed from R5 to ND6 I'm not sure. If you were to actually configure an Directory Service account via Outlook Express (ew) for the particular server and set the search base to say the organization (as I do), it would have a point of reference to search. If they are use to using the start/run option, this would be more steps then they are use to since they would now have to pull up the address book via OE. At least this is what I do to search via LDAP. They could do this, set up their server in OE as a Directory Service, setting their Search base to "o=<organziation>", save it. Now from Start/Run, type WAB, this will bring up the actual OE address book, from there they could see and search the directory via LDAP.



2. Posted by Joe Litton - website09/09/2007 08:42 PM



Tony, Thanks for the suggestions. I'm pretty ignorant about this stuff, so I'll pass this on to the folks who are trying to figure it out. The goofy thing is that the Start/Run option works with another server (still running R5 on that one) and reportedly worked for accessing ldap on the problem server back when it was R5. I'm told that it stopped working after upgrading to 6.5.2.

Thanks!



3. Posted by Rob McDonagh - website09/09/2007 08:42 PM



Didn't R5 assume a seach base, though, where in ND6 you have to configure it? I'm no LDAP wizard, though, so I'm probably wrong. Did you ping Chris IdoNotes Miller? This is right up his alley...



4. Posted by Tony Kelleran - website09/09/2007 08:42 PM



You are in luck, here is their answer: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=463&context=SSKTMJ&q1=LDAP+search+base&uid=swg21095828&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en



5. Posted by Joe Litton - website09/09/2007 08:42 PM



Tony, It looks like you found the precise info that was needed. Thank you!!!

Many thanks to you and to Rob for responding so quickly. This Domino community totally rocks!