I've followed the same guide (but only for clients, my server is running Debian with openldap). The Ubuntu client that I'm using is Intrepid (although it seems this is a rather common error no matter distribution).
I've tried every combination of settings on the client, and it seems to work as finger ldapuser returns nice information. ldapsearch -x also returns the user database... So it's only PAM that can't connect: Oct 15 14:06:52 stavanger login[4135]: pam_ldap: ldap_simple_bind Can't contact LDAP server Oct 15 14:06:52 stavanger login[4135]: pam_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server... Oct 15 14:06:52 stavanger login[4135]: pam_ldap: ldap_simple_bind Can't contact LDAP server Oct 15 14:06:54 stavanger login[4135]: FAILED LOGIN (2) on 'tty4' FOR `ldapuser', Authentication failure -- Can't contact LDAP server https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/222003 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs