Re: Error-message "No such object"

[Tina M. <tin...@pi...>]

On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Chris Ridd wrote:
> Tina Mueller <ti...@ze...> wrote:
> > if i use ldapsearch directly i get:
> > $ ldapsearch -v -h ldap.company -b 'c=DE' 'uid=some_uid' (or even 'sn=*')
> > ldap_init( ldap.company, 389 )
> > filter pattern: uid=some_uid
> > returning: ALL
> > filter is: (uid=some_uid)
> > ldap_search: No such object
>
> Either the base DN does not exist, or if it does, you are not allowed to
> search it (maybe your server doesn't allow anonymous searches).
>
> Try reading the namingContexts attribute from the root DSE (an entry with
> DN of a zero-length string) to find out what the server thinks it holds:
>
> ldapsearch -h ldap.company -b "" -s base "(objectclass=*)" namingContexts

this was the right clue, many thanks!
the command returned
namingContexts=o=mycompany
so my only problem was, that there is no dn for the country, but
I tried all my examples with c=DE. now i'm getting results.
i somehow thought there would be the dn "c" on all LDAP-servers.

thanks again, tina

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