Tarang Patel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am having a problem getting the directory server to follow the
> smart referral nodes that I have created. I've followed the
> documentation, and created
> smart referral node with "referral" objectclass and attribute "ref"
> set appropriately. However, all I get in the NDS 5.0 (iPlanet) console
> is
> "This entry could not be read".
>
> [Q] How is the "smart referral" propogated ?
>
> Given, that I did not have any proxy like user set up in order to get
> authenticated across my 2nd server.
>
> Given, that I have heard noise about buggy netscape console, I also
> attempt
> an ldapsearch using the utilities as well as some perl code using
> perldap API, however all I get is :
>
> "Could not follow referral"
> ldaps://xyz.com/ou=People,o=xyz.com
>
1) The console smart referral support has been improved a great deal in iDS 5.1
2) you must explicitly tell your Conn object in perldap to follow referrals with a
rebind proc
3) The command line should automatically follow referrals too - use the -R option of
ldapsearch to see what is going on - also
look at the access log on the referred to server to see what the BIND errors are
4) ldaps - are you using SSL?
>
> The smart referral, I have is in the following trees :
>
> o=abc.com o=xyz.com
> | |
> ------------ ----------------
> | | | |
> ou=People ou=Groups ou=People ou=Groups
> |_ou=xyzPeople
> ref=ldap://xyz.com/ou=People,o=xyz.com
>
> In reality, I've only seen the "smart referral" working in NDS 4.11,
> when I was managing the configurations of 2nd server instances from
> the 1st server install. This i something you can choose to do at
> installation point.
>
> I would really appreciate any help you are able to give on this. As I
> don't get an opportunity to read this news groups that often, please
> CC me any posted
> responses to the query. I can be reached at
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Tarang
