Re: Netscape-LDAP URL problems

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 05:19:24PM +0200, Mikael Grehn wrote:
> Hi,
>     I am trying to connect to my openLdap server (which works fine with
> other ldapclients) with Netscape directly
>     through the URL. I read RFC 2256 and tried to connect by writing:
> 
>         ldap://192.168.0.45:389/o=AMV,c=se??sub??bindname=o=AMV%2cc=se
> 
>     My baseentry is "o=AMV,c=se"
>     I try to bind as "o=AMV,c=se"
>     but I need to send bindpw aswell bindpw="mysecretpw"
>     The '%2c' is for commas according to RFC.
> 
> Could someone give some examples how the exact syntax is, using binddn,
> bindpw and perhaps some simple filters?
> Do i have to enable 'roaming server' to be able to connect at all?
> (I managed to contact ldap server but failed to enter any backend
> functions, ie. bind)

Netscape may not implement this. It has to be supported on the client side
(bindname that is). I tried it aswell, and it doesn't appear to work. I even
tried the user:pass@host style, but that didn't work either.

Ben

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