niloulili(a)hotmail.com writes: insert "ldap_unbind( ld );" here. Does that fix the problem? That's how to free the LDAP* structure. In LDAP, "unbind" is the "disconnect" command, it's not the opposite of "bind". The misleading name came about because originally one had to bind after connect. res == NULL here in this particular code, so you can drop this and the declaration of 'res'. -- Regards, Hallvard