Re: pagedResults in back-ldap (ITS#3283)

[openldapmarcw@rutabaga.cc.ndsu.nodak.edu]

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 borwicjh@wfu.edu wrote:

> Full_Name: John Borwick
> Version: 2.2.13
> OS: Red Hat Workstation 3
> URL: 
> Submission from: (NULL) (152.17.54.174)
> 
> 
> Hello!
> 
> OpenLDAP advertises the pagedResults control, but back-ldap does not support
> it.
> 
> It would be really neat if back-ldap supported pagedResults.  Perhaps back-ldap
> could support pagedResults only if the directory to which back-ldap is pointing
> supports pagedResults.
> 
> Also, it would be nice to have a way to turn off the advertisement of a
> control.
> 
> Our Outlook 2003 users could not access LDAP for a while, because Outlook
> detected that OpenLDAP supports pagedResults, but back-ldap does not support
> pagedResults.

We've been unable to get Outlook to work properly with 2.2.13
and were forced to fall back to 2.1.30 due to this issue.
Unfortunately, 2.2.13 has worked much better for us.

Is there some workaround or a fix in the works?
-- 

Marc Wallman
Senior Systems Administrator
Information Technology Services
North Dakota State University
Marc.Wallman@ndsu.nodak.edu
(701) 231-7168