RE: Another replication question

["Theodore Reph" <ted@reph.org>]

Raf:

The purpose of the slave is to serve as a backup in case the failure of the
master. If the rootdn is different then the ldapsearch or ldapadd can't
handle the failure 


For example: 
Master rootdn: "cn=Manager,dc=reph,dc=org"
Slave rootdn: "cn=Replicator,dc=reph,dc=org"

Ldapsearch -x -W -D "cn=Manager,dc=reph,dc=org" -H
ldap://reph1.reph.org,ldap://reph2.reph.org 

does not work if the master is not available.  That is what I'm trying to
accomplish.

Theodore Reph
treph@att.net


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
[mailto:owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org] On Behalf Of Raf Meeusen
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 10:28 AM
To: Theodore Reph
Cc: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
Subject: Re: Another replication question


when you want to replicate everything under dc=r,dc=s,dc=t towards another  
server, and the other (the slave-) server has only dc=s,dc=t, then it wont  
work.  You need to have a "hook" on the slave, where the master can bind  
to...  In our example here, you also need the dc=r,dc=s,dc=t DN on the  
slave.

When te master has no hook to bind with, it wont work...

how to do that?

Make sure you've added dc=r,dc=s,dc=t to the slave.  Just as if it was an 
entry...

good luck,

Raf
> 
> 
> On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Theodore Reph wrote:
> 
> > In the documentation
http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin21/replication.html in
> > section 13.4.5, it states:
> > 
> > "Note that the DN given by the binddn= directive must exist in the slave
> > slapd's database (or be the rootdn specified in the slapd config file)
in
> > order for the bind operation to succeed."
> > 
> > What does it mean that the binddn = directive must must exist in the
slave
> > slapd's database?  How does one do that?
> > 
> > Theodore Reph
> > treph@att.net
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

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