That's what I was referring to in my original post - thanks for confirming :)

So just to be sure - there's no way to force back-sql to connect to a remote SQL server?

Thanks,

Jason.

----- Original Message -----
From: "alessio" <alessio@ifc.cnr.it>
To: openldap-software@openldap.org
Sent: Monday, 12 January, 2009 6:53:47 PM GMT +08:00 Perth
Subject: Re: OpenLDAP connecting to remote MySQL server with back-sql

Jason B wrote:

> However, obdc.ini (which has been separately tested) is configured to
> connect to the MySQL server on 192.168.1.34. My understanding is that
> the dbhost attribute in slapd.conf is ignored – we’ve set this anyway
> just to make sure.

In the man page of slapd-sql we can read:

dbhost <hostname>
dbpasswd <password>
dbuser <username>

The  three above options are generally unneeded, because this
information is taken from the datasource specified by the dbname
directive.  They allow to override datasource settings.  Also,
several  RDBMS€™  drivers  tend  to require  explicit  passing  of
user/password,  even if those are given in datasource (Note: dbhost is
currently ignored).



Bye
A




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