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Old 02-23-2007
ldapsearch (Can't contact ldap server)
Hi,

Can somebody help me with ldapsearch? I am a newbie with linux and trying to do a ldapquery to resolve a full name from Active Directory?

When i give the command ldapsearch -h sso541885 "cn=mloon"
I get the error "ldap_sasl_interactive_bind_s: can't contact ldap server

Regards,

Michel
# 2  
Old 02-23-2007
What does

telnet sso541885 ldap

show? You are sure the hostname can resolve to a valid IP? and the firewall has not blocked anything?
# 3  
Old 02-23-2007
Hostname not working Ip does
Hi

when I give the command telnet ip-address ldap it does work (hostname does not)

Suppose a want to find the full name for the user mloon... what command do i need to give?

Thanks,

Michel
# 4  
Old 02-23-2007
Can you first test by replacing the hostname with the IP address of the host?
# 5  
Old 02-26-2007
no succes with IP address
Hi,

With the ip address i get the same error!!

Regards,

Michel
# 6  
Old 02-26-2007
Try capture the network traffic between the host and LDAP server with tcpdump or ethereal/Wireshark while you are running ldapsearch. Check whether the search request really reach the LDAP server or simply blocked (say if the request is sent in UDP and the firewall blocked the response so the client assumed the server could not be contacted).
# 7  
Old 02-27-2007
Connection made... and now?
Hi with the following command I can make a connection:

Code:
ldapsearch -x -h domain -D username -w password -b "dc=example,dc=nl"

This gives me acces to the ldap server

If I give the command

Code:
ldapsearch -x -h domain -D username -w password -b "dc=example,dc=nl" -t uid=mloon

this will not work

but if i do this I do get a result:

Code:
ldapsearch -x -h domain -D username -w password -b "dc=example,dc=nl" "objectclass=*"

Can somebody tell me what I am doing wrong?

Regards,

Michel
 
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