Re: Redhat 9 problems

[Colin Chalmers <Colin.Chalmers@xs4all.nl>]

Thx for the reply, I've now deleted the xinetd script and things appear 
to work (better). I can query using command line seeing entries for Org 
and Manager however from a seperate machine using Mozilla I gwt NO 
entries back. BUT when looking at incoming requests using netstat it 
appears the external machine where Mozilla is running is setting up a 
connection to 389.

Hhmmm, what have I done wrong or am overlooking?

/c

Medievalist wrote:

> If you have iptables running it's probably blocking your LDAP port.  For a 
> test, you could do 
>
> service iptables stop
>
> and see if OpenLDAP works then.  Be aware that you are taking down your 
> firewall when you do this, though - if you are on an unsecured network you will 
> want to be careful that you have insecure services (like samba) turned off 
> first.
>
> xinetd is not used to invoke ldap; the ldap daemons run standalone.  If it's up 
> and running, you can see the daemons with ps -aef (look for slapd instances).
>
> --Charlie
>
> On 20 Jan 2004 at 23:09, Colin Chalmers wrote:
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> > I just downloaded OpenLdap, followed the instructions on getting started 
> > and succesfully installed OpenLdap on Redhat 9 :-))
> >
> > However I'm having trouble accessing the server from another computer. I 
> > can telnet to the RH box so thats OK. I think it has to do with the 
> > Xinetd settings for Ldap? I tried copying a config file from telnet and 
> > adapting it for Ldap but this doesn't seem to work.
> >
> > Is anyone else using OpenLdap on RH 9 and could give me some pointers?
> >
> > Colin
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