[Zope] LDAPadapter does not connect to remote LDAP server

[Jens Vagelpohl]

i suggest you look at the code it uses to connect and then go through 
those steps "by hand" in the python interpreter to determine where it 
fails.

jens

P.S.: take a look at the LDAPUserFolder instead, AFAIK the LDAPAdapter 
product is no longer maintained: 
http://www.dataflake.org/software/ldapuserfolder/

On Wednesday, Sep 4, 2002, at 07:58 US/Eastern, Mitja Martini wrote:

> Hi,
>
> we tried to connect a LDAPadapter to a remote LDAP server but it did 
> not work. If we use the local LDAD server everything works ok. If we 
> try the remote server we get an error:
>
> Log of LDAPAdapter
> (2) Wed 12:17: Reinitialized
> (9) Wed 12:17: Checking superuser
> (9) Wed 12:17: superuser not found in user cache
> (1) Wed 12:17: Unable to open connection to ldap server
> (9) Wed 12:17: superuser connect returned cannot find superuser
> (9) Wed 12:17: superuser returned no roles
> (9) Wed 12:17: Checking superuser
> (9) Wed 12:17: superuser not found in user cache
> (1) Wed 12:17: Unable to open connection to ldap server
> (9) Wed 12:17: superuser connect returned cannot find superuser
> (9) Wed 12:17: superuser returned no roles
>
> We tested both LDAP servers with LDAPBrowser/Editor 2.8.2 and they 
> seem to be ok.
>
> Does anybody know where the problem might be?
>
> Our System:
>
> Solaris 2.8, Zope 2.5.1, openldap 2.0.23 (on both servers), 
> LDAPadapter-zope 22x-1.0, Python 2.1.2, Python-ldap-2.0.0pre05
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Nice Greetings,
>
> Mitja Martini
>