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slapadd/cat works, ldapadd/search doesn't?



Hi,

please bear with me -- I'm very new to LDAP, and it uses an approach different enough to anything I've seen before that I'm only very slowly getting the hang of it.

To learn how it works, I've configured a very small slapd on a Linux machine, and am playing with it a bit. And I must say I'm very confused. I can access slapd's database with slapadd and slapcat, but ldapadd and ldapsearch don't work, saying "parent not found" or "object not found", respectively.

Here's my slapd.conf:
[snip]
include		/etc/openldap/schema/core.schema
pidfile		/var/run/slapd/slapd.pid
argsfile	/var/run/slapd/slapd.args
database	ldbm
suffix		"dc=my-domain,dc=com"
rootdn		"cn=Manager,dc=my-domain,dc=com"
rootpw		secret
directory	/var/lib/ldap
index	objectClass	eq
[snip]

I initialized the database and put a user in using slapadd; slapcat says (trimmed for readability):
[snip]
dn: dc=my-domain,dc=com
objectClass: organization
objectClass: dcObject
[...]


dn: cn=Manager,dc=my-domain,dc=com
objectClass: organizationalRole
cn: Manager
[...]

dn: cn=Bjoern Giesler,dc=my-domain,dc=com
objectClass: person
cn: Bjoern Giesler
sn: Giesler
[...]
[snip]

So looks like the database is filled OK, right? However, ldapsearch says:

	huckepack:~> ldapsearch -x
	# extended LDIF
	#
	# LDAPv3
	# base <> with scope sub
	# filter: (objectclass=*)
	# requesting: ALL
	#

	# search result
	search: 2
	result: 32 No such object

	# numResponses: 1

I've tried ldapadd also (using cn=Manager,dn=my-domain,dn=com as a bind DN and the correct password; if I don't, it complains about incorrect authentication, so I know it's talking to the right server and at least doing *something* with it). When I try to add "cn=Joe User,dc=my-domain,dc=com", it complains about "parent not found"... which is consistent with ldapsearch not finding anything.

Can anybody help me out here? I'm very very confused.

Thanks a million in advance!

Regards,
Björn