<div dir="ltr">You should be able to run ldapsearch from the client by specifying the server. I think the command is ldapsearch -H hosturl -D bindname -W but I don't have access to an LDAP server to check that at the moment. <div class="gmail_quote"> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Carl Keil <<a href="mailto:carl@snarlnet.com" target="_blank">carl@snarlnet.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hey Folks, I've been trying for weeks to set up an LDAP server. I've got the feeling that they LDAP server is working, but I'm not sure. I am sure that I can't get my Ubuntu 8 test client to authenticate from it. Is there anything like a troubleshooting procedure for this? Is there a way to test my connection to the server from the client short of rebooting and trying to log in? (Make sure I'm not having firewall, dns, etc. issues?) Also, I kindof think my test client is fairly hosed from all the conf file editing I've done. I've tried uninstalling ldap-auth-config and reinstalling it, but it doesn't ask me questions when I reinstall. Is there a procedure for "resetting" all the files that pertain to logging in (the stuff in pam.d, etc.), so that I can try reconfiguring for LDAP authentication from scratch again? Right now my client takes forever to log in (locally), so testing is a real pain. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, ck _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com" target="_blank">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org" target="_blank">http://www.k12os.org</a>> </blockquote></div> </div>