From the results below it looks like your server is not even coming up.
This would explain why you are not able to search or add entries. Next
thing to look at is to see if you are getting any useful information in
the slapd.log. This should be in /var/log/slapd.log. If you don't know
where it is located then try using the locate command I think ubuntu
should have that or something equivalent.

If you don't find one then you might need to enable the log in
/etc/syslog.conf.

I use RH so I assume something similar is available on ubuntu.

I added the list back to the CC so others that might know more about
ubuntu specifics can help and so they can assist you as well.

--Kris

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*From:* Donny George [mailto:donny008@gmail.com]
*Sent:* Wednesday, November 19, 2008 3:13 PM
*To:* Burton, Kris - Acision
*Subject:* Re: cont contact server since 3 days+please help

hello kris

this are the results that i get when i try to listen , guess this is not
wat u were expecting


root@ubuntu:/home/administrator# ps -eaf | grep slapd
root 14183 14172 0 22:07 pts/0 00:00:00 grep slapd
root@ubuntu:/home/administrator# netstat -na | grep 389

Trying 10.4.139.5...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

i tried the earlier steps like ldapsearch -d 255 after reading different
forums of ldap but please dont misunderstand me to be an expert in openldap

could you tell me how to establish the connectivity or where did i go wrong

thanking you
don


On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Burton, Kris - Acision

<kris.burton@acision.com <mailto:kris.burton@acision.com>> wrote:

Have you on the server side verified that LDAP is up and listening on
the proper port?

ps –eaf | grep slapd

netstat -na | grep 389

If the above come back and indicate it is up and listening see if you
can telnet to the <ip> 389 and get something back.

Also you could check to see if you are getting errors on server startup
by checking the slapd.log on the server side and see if it is reporting
any errors.

If you are using the command line search are you specifying the remote
server using the –h option?

Most of the errors seem to indicate there is nothing listening on the
server to handle the search request.

--Kris Burton

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*From:* openldap-technical-bounces+kris.burton=acision.com

[mailto:openldap-technical-bounces+kris.burton

*Sent:* Wednesday, November 19, 2008 8:47 AM
*To:* openldap-technical@openldap.org

*Subject:* cont contact server since 3 days+please help


hello all

i am a beginner with openldap and installed a server and a client with
ldap(both machines ubuntu 8.04)

but once i tried to populate the database at the server it gave the
error that it couldnt contact the server. i cudnt connect to the server
frmo the client either.

i ran the command ldapsearch -d 255 to debug and heres the result

ldap_create
ldap_pvt_sasl_getmech
ldap_search
put_filter: "(objectclass=*)"
put_filter: simple
put_simple_filter: "objectclass=*"
ldap_build_search_req ATTRS: supportedSASLMechanisms
ldap_send_initial_request
ldap_new_connection 1 1 0
ldap_int_open_connection

ldap_new_socket: 3
ldap_prepare_socket: 3

ldap_pvt_connect: fd: 3 tm: -1 async: 0
ldap_close_socket: 3
ldap_err2string
ldap_sasl_interactive_bind_s: Can't contact LDAP server (-1)


and if i run ldapsearch -x it gives the message

ldap_sasl_bind(SIMPLE): Can't contact LDAP server (-1)


please someone help, i dont know where i cud start to solve this error.


--
Donny George


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