I made duplicates of our setup inside VMWare Server, and replicated this issue with loglevel -1 Logs of me modifying uid=pi,ou=accounts,dc=tcc,dc=nmt,dc=edu (which succeeded on replication) and adding uid=pye,ou=accounts,dc=tcc,dc=nmt,dc=edu (which failed) are available: http://infohost.nmt.edu/~twopir/ldap_syncrepl_issue/ HTH, Pi