ldap help ?

[Alexander Samad]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 6:39 PM, abdelkader belahcene
<abelahcene at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I installed  sldap  2.4.18  on server  debian squeeze (here 172.19.6.150)
> when Iuse the command
> ldapsearch -xLLL -b "dc=example,dc=com" uid=john sn givenName cn
> dn: uid=john,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com
> sn: Doe
> givenName: John
> cn: John Doe
>
> I get correct answer
>
> I tried to do it from a remote machine  where ( ubuntu 9.10 )   (IP
> 172.19.6.50)
> I installed package for authentication in this client machine
>
> libnss-ldap
> ldap-auth-config
> I ran pam-auth-update
>
> everything seemed  correct  like it is decalred in the document
>
>
> http://doc.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/serverguide/C/openldap-server.html
>
> I used ubuntu doc, because I have install 2.4.18 ( not present  yet on
> squeeze),
>
> on some machine it running  correctly, on other not!!!??
>
>
> I got the error : ( it is running on another machine : 172.19.6.50 )
>
> ldapsearch -xLLL -b  -H ldap://172.19.6.150  "dc=example,dc=com" uid=john sn
> givenName cn
>

thats not exactly the same yuo haven't set a host name, have you
checked your firewall ?

>
> ldap_sasl_bind(SIMPLE): Can't contact LDAP server (-1)
>
> in the same way , the authentication is not done ( john is created in ldap
> server)
>
> su - john
> identifier unknown  : john
>
>
>
> I can do same from another machine running debian lenny. very strange I
> install same packages, that what I believe
>
> any idea
> thanks a lot
>
>