RE: LDAP connections to the proper server, and unknown error??

Thanks for helping Adam! 

                >..You mentioned earlier that when calling the API you were 
specifying a 
port for the LDAP server, do you need to do so on your ldapsearch command as 
well?...

The ldapsearch command does not need a port, but according to the docs provides 
a parameter if your LDAP server is not on the standard port 389. Our active 
directory programmer assures me it is the standard. 

..If not, then based on that error it seems to me that it may be a 

networking issue.  Can you ping the LDAP server from the iSeries?  What 
about telnetting to the port the LDAP admins gave you?  Is it possible 
that there is a firewall or routing problem getting in the way?....

I'm able to ping the mail server, which is the same as the LDAP server (they 
assure me) in three different ways: (1) repxxx.com, and 
(2) mail.repsrv.com, and (3) the box name, "MAIL".

..If none of those things turn anything up, you may want to check the 

version of AD.  From my understanding, some of the older implementations 
of LDAP were not very strong in their compliance with LDAP standards - I 
don't know any details, just that there has been discussion of problems 
with AD's LDAP implementation on my Linux User's Group mailing list.  Once 
again, it is my understanding that this is only a problem with earlier 
versions of AD.

I'll check into the version, but on that score, the dot-net programmer is 
pretty sophisticated, visits the local MS office regularly, and tells me the 
company "spends beaucoup bucks" on Microsoft stuff. Meaning, I'm sure it's the 
latest version. 

But I wouldn't be surprised at some stupid MS quirk that gums up this thing, 
really. But he even showed me someplace he had it and their API looks like 
mine, so ??? 

I'm also going to try the ldap_simple_bind, but since the MS apps out here work 
over the LAN and access the directory, and this one is telling me it can't 
contact the server, then I'm thinking it's maybe some different something I'm 
supposed to do with the server? 

By the way, for Mike, I also tried the %addr(LDAP_srv) and got the same thing...

The RPG-dot-net-wannabe wants to write something in C# and get the result from 
an SQL stored procedure. Yow! Sounds like a real kludge to me (just between us 
i5-chickens here) since these API's are SUPPOSED to work just as is. 

He wants to flex his new C# skills, I want to flex my API's. :-) Supposed to be 
the same API anyway!

--Alan