Re: [WiX-users] ldap_open/ldap_connect in Custom Action

2012-11-11 Thread Kun Shi (ofox)
- Original Message - From: Kun Shi (ofox) s...@vmware.com To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net, phil wilson phil.wil...@mvps.org Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2012 3:39:12 PM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] ldap_open/ldap_connect in Custom Action Hi

[WiX-users] ldap_open/ldap_connect in Custom Action

2012-11-10 Thread Kun Shi (ofox)
Hi guys, I need to access LDAP when running a msi on a Windows server 2008 , so I have to call LDAP APIs using CA. I tried 2 approaches, but both failed with error code 0x51 Cannot contact the LDAP server . 1. ldap_open((PWCHR)localhost, 389) 2. ldap_init( (PWCHR)127.0.01, 389 ), then

Re: [WiX-users] ldap_open/ldap_connect in Custom Action

2012-11-10 Thread Phil Wilson
because presumably you run it with your user account. Phil -Original Message- From: Kun Shi (ofox) [mailto:s...@vmware.com] Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2012 5:05 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] ldap_open/ldap_connect in Custom Action Importance: High Hi

Re: [WiX-users] ldap_open/ldap_connect in Custom Action

2012-11-10 Thread Jeremy Farrell
Assuming the code is C or similar ... I know nothing about these APIs, but the way you're calling them doesn't make sense. If they expect to receive a pointer to a wide character as their first parameter, then they presumably expect that pointer to point to a wide character string - taking a

Re: [WiX-users] ldap_open/ldap_connect in Custom Action

2012-11-10 Thread Kun Shi (ofox)
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2012 2:01:16 AM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] ldap_open/ldap_connect in Custom Action Things like this are often related to the account that the CA is running with. If it's impersonation=no (and if that's the syntax) it's running with the system account and accessing