Re: newbie's problem with replication of ldap

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

What version of OpenLDAP Software are you using?
  updateref uri=ldap://192.168.60.193:389/
should produce a configuration error.  See slapd.conf(5).

At 09:50 AM 9/10/2004, Ganesh Godavari wrote:
>hello group,
> i am trying to setup a replication server test bed for ldap where data can be propagated from one machine to another so that all people in the organization can see view the records. for this purpose i created two ldap servers running on 192.168.60.193, and 192.168.61.132 respectively. when ever an entry is added or modified in the organization unit 'Computer Science' i want that data to be updated in the master ldap server (o = virtualOffice)
>
>rootdn of the master is o=virtualOffice
>rootdn of the slave is ou=Computer Science,o=virtualOffice
>
>when i try to update the slave i get the following message
>
># ldapadd -xv -D "cn=Manager,ou=Computer Science,o=virtualOffice" -W -f testldif.ldif -h 127.0.0.1
>
>ldap_init( 127.0.0.1, 0 )
>Enter LDAP Password:
>add ou:
>        Computer Science
>add objectClass:
>        top
>        organizationalUnit
>add description:
>        Members of Computer Science
>adding new entry "cn=Manager,ou=Computer Science,o=virtualOffice"
>ldap_add: Referral
> 
>ldif_record() = 10
>
>why is the referal not being displayed? what mistake did i do?
>can anyone point me in the right direction?
>
>Thanks in advance
>gkgodava
>
>
>
>**********slapd.conf file for master ldap server(192.168.60.193) is ********
>
># Sample Access Control
>access to *
>        by dn="cn=Manager,ou=Computer Science,o=virtualOffice" write
>        by * read
>access to *
>        by dn="ou=Computer Science,o=virtualOffice" write
>        by * read
>access to *
>        by dn="o=virtualOffice" write
>        by * read
>
>#######################################################################
># ldbm database definitions
>#######################################################################
>
>database ldbm
>suffix "o=virtualOffice"
>rootdn "o=virtualOffice"
>rootpw secret
>directory /var/lib/ldap/virtualCampus
># Indices to maintain
>index cn,sn,st pres,eq,sub
>replogfile /var/lib/ldap/replica/slurpd.replog
>replica host=192.168.61.132:389
>binddn="o=virtualOffice"
>      bindmethod=simple
>      credentials=secret
>
>********slapd.conf file for slave(192.168.61.132) ldap server is ********
>
># Sample Access Control
>access to *
>by dn="cn=Manager,ou=Computer Science,o=virtualOffice" write
>by * read
>access to *
>        by dn="ou=Computer Science,o=virtualOffice" write
>        by * read
>access to *
>        by dn="o=virtualOffice" write
>        by * read
>
>#######################################################################
># ldbm database definitions
>#######################################################################
>
>database ldbm
>suffix "ou=Computer Science,o=virtualOffice"
>rootdn "cn=Manager,ou=Computer Science,o=virtualOffice"
>rootpw secret
>index cn,sn,st pres,eq,sub
>updatedn "o=virtualOffice"
>updateref uri=ldap://192.168.60.193:389/
>