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Re: can't connect to ldap server (0x5B)
I also got the "Can't connect" error when using LDAPS:/// and when my SLAPD certificates did not match the machine name.
I created valid certificates using the machine name and all worked well.
Andrew Bacchi said:
>
>> we are running openldap software to maintain our univ. students digital certificate. We are successfully able to
>> search the ldap for certs. from the local system but when we try from remote machine, netscape ldap client throws
>> an error stating "can't connect to ldap server".
>
> Check your firewall again on both the ldap server and on a client
> machine. It's worth a double check. Also check the acl in slapd.conf, are you letting your domain in to browse?
>
>> P.S : Also, in R.H their are two ldap. conf files /etc/ldap.conf & /etc/openldap/ldap.conf. which one will be
>> loaded when we start
>> slapd by /etc/rc.d/init.d/ldap start.
>
> When you built the RH machine, and you told the installer to install @Everything, you installed the openldap rpm,
> that installs
> /etc/openldap/ldap.conf. If you then installed openldap yourself, from source for instance, it installed ldap.conf
> in /etc/. You are probably using /etc/ldap.conf. Try renaming /etc/openldap/ldap.conf by appending ".orig" to the
> filename. If you can still connect to the ldap server, you are using /etc/ldap.conf.
>
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> Andrew Bacchi
> Staff Systems Programmer
> Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
> phone: 518 276-6415 fax: 518 276-2809
>
> http://www.rpi.edu/~bacchi/
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