Actually it was that slapd.conf wasn't restarting correctly, I did a full reboot on my server and got this stuff to start to work. Not exactly sure why this is the case versus /usr/local/libexec/slapd.d restart but it works now and I'm all the wiser.

Thanks! *Ray*

Message: 13

Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:47:12 +0100 From: "Dieter Kluenter" dieter@dkluenter.de Subject: Re: objectclass not found inetorgperson? To: openldap-technical@openldap.org Message-ID: 87zl3198rz.fsf@rubin.avci.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

Ray Carrender mrsmiley32@gmail.com writes:

...

I keep getting a ldap_add: Invalid syntax (21) ???????????????????????????? additional info: objectclass: value #0

invalid

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per syntax

(ldif) dn: cn=Charlton Heston,ou=people,dc=afranius,dc=com cn: Charlton sn: Heston mail: heston@actor.com telephoneNumber:508-555-1212 objectclass: inetOrgPerson

check the ldif file whether inetorgPerson is followed by a space.

-Dieter

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