I've experienced this problem with iPlanet 4.x and interestingly the problem didn't occur for me when I upgraded to iPlanet 5.x. (This happened to me on a WinNT system.)
One suggestion I might try if you are absolutely unable to get the console to launch (and you happen to know that it "used" to work) is also to try installing the iPlanet Console (just the GUI client not the server) onto another machine, such as on a WinNT workstation or server and then connect to it remotely and see if that works. I've actually encountered a situation where it would connect remotely but would time out locally! Another suggestion would be to try to create another LDAP server instance and see if you can open THAT one up. This way you'll know if the problem is specific to just that LDAP server instance. Two very important other questions to consider: Any recent changes to the server's IP address? Is the hostname of the LDAP server resolvable in DNS? - Hyder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (lloyd knight) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > i have inherited an iplanet 5.0 directory server > on solaris 2.7. > > i start the console (startconsole) and when i select the directory server, > then the open button, i see: > > opening server window > > and the blue progress bar at the bottom of the console, but > nothing ever happens. > > the admin server selection works fine. > > i've found old postings regarding this problem with directory server 4.0 but > the dse.ldif changes that are discussed don't seem to help me. > > according to others this has worked previously. > > does anyone have any clues, hints, solutions??? > thanks > > lloyd knight
