Re: remote searches

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Saturday, September 07, 2002 9:08 PM -0700 "Kurt D. Zeilenga" 
<Kurt@OpenLDAP.org> wrote:

> At 08:22 PM 2002-09-07, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> > Do I also need to set up an ldap.conf file on the machine(s) from where
> > I am doing searches?
>
> LDAP tools read ldap.conf(5) files through the file system
> on which they run.  The tools don't care whether ldap.conf(5)
> files are local or remote, they just access it as they would
> any other file.
>
> Kurt


Okay, then I'm completely lost.  ldap.conf exists on the machine which it 
is querying (ldap3).  Running a query on ldap3 using the same conf file 
works fine.  So why doesn't it work when I'm running the query from a 
different machine if it doesn't care where ldap.conf is located?

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Senior Systems Administrator
ITSS/TSS/Computing Systems
Stanford University
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