As noted elsewhere, the "-C" option is intentionally undocumented. Since the command line tools only support anonymous referral chasing, and referral chasing through untrusted servers is inherently unsafe, it's best not to do it. This ITS will be closed. -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/