Re: Roaming still not working...

[John Kougoulos <kugjon@panteion.gr>]

Mike,

Send please some logs of the ldap server to see what's going on.
(Connection debug log level).
Communicator sometimes complains about failed authentication even if it
has authenticated, but cannot find nsLIprefs=xxxx, ou=Roaming etc
entries

John

Mike Frisch wrote:
> 
> I am trying to implement a simple roaming setup with OpenLDAP and Netscape
> Communicator 4.5.  My two problems are:
> 
> 1.  Netscape does not appear to read the password.  When I get the login
> prompt, if I enter a password, the authentication fails.  If I leave it
> blank, it works fine.  I have a "userPassword" entry for the roaming user
> profile using a 'crypt' password (set with ldappasswd).  I also tried
> 'sha' to no avail.
> 
> 2.  Assuming things should work without any password authentication, how
> does one actually get the roaming profile information to be utilized on
> the local system?
> 
> The roaming information appears to be updated on the server (as proven by
> ldapsearch which shows Netscape added 'stuff'), but the client is not
> utilizing it.  I have been though countless wild goose chases trying to
> find a definitive source of information on this topic but have come up
> with nothing.  The "Manually Implementing..." document is marginally
> useful after the schema, etc has been setup.
> 
> Any assistance is appreciated.
> 
> Mike.
> 
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>   Mike Frisch                         Email: mfrisch@saturn.tlug.org
>   Northstar Technologies        WWW: http://saturn.tlug.org/~mfrisch
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