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

________________________________ 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 root@ubuntu:/home/administrator# telnet 10.4.139.5http://10.4.139.5 389 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.commailto: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

tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:389http://0.0.0.0:389 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN

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.comhttp://acision.com@OpenLDAP.org [mailto:openldap-technical-bounces+kris.burtonmailto:openldap-technical-bounces%2Bkris.burton=acision.comhttp://acision.com@OpenLDAP.org] On Behalf Of Donny George Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 8:47 AM To: openldap-technical@openldap.orgmailto: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_connect_to_host: TCP 10.4.139.5:389http://10.4.139.5:389 ldap_new_socket: 3 ldap_prepare_socket: 3 ldap_connect_to_host: Trying 10.4.139.5:389http://10.4.139.5:389 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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