RE: parent does not exist

Hello all,

I'm new to openLDAP (one week) and since I downloaded and installed the package on my NT machine I have been reading a lot of the documents on openldap site. I'm running my second test that came with the package and have some question. If anyone could help me with the answers or where to find comprehensive source of information (a book for people new to the subject) I would greately appreciate.
[oberwetter, josh] For a general intro to LDAP, I read "Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory Services" by Timothy Howes et al, and I often refer to the various RFCs. But you should send general LDAP questions to the Michigan list.

Answers to OpenLDAP questions can be found in the mailing list archives, the Admin guide, the FAQ, and whatever (mis)information is lying around the web. There is no comprehensive source of info for OpenLDAP, unless you get to know the code :-)

I'm working with openldap2.0.11. I am trying to run one of the test under (\openldap-2.0.11\tests\data\ ) and get the following error on the client:

    adding new entry "cn=All Staff,ou=Groups,o=University of Michigan,c=US"
    ldap_add: No such object
    ldif_record() = 32
[oberwetter, josh] Perhaps somebody else knows exactly what tests you're running. The first tests that I ran are described here http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin/quickstart.html

Send us the contents of d:\openLDAP\test.ldif up to & including the entry that fails (cn=All Staff,...), so that people who aren't familiar with the specific test can help debug this common error.

Or, you might be able to help yourself using the FAQ http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/343.html

I am issuing the command:

ldapmodify -a -x -v -D "cn=Manager, o=University of Michigan, c=US" -W -f d:\openLDAP\test.ldif

Chasing through the diagnostics it seems an attempt is made to add cn=All since it's the parent level of cn=Manager. Then why am I getting

parent does not exist

on the server side?

thanks in advance for any help