Re: can't connect to ldap server (0x5B)

[Andrew Bacchi <bacchi@rpi.edu>]

> 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.
 
-- 
Andrew Bacchi
Staff Systems Programmer
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
phone: 518 276-6415  fax: 518 276-2809

http://www.rpi.edu/~bacchi/