2. (Potential) Problems

• When trying to find documentation via Google found lots of other people with problems getting the Solaris LDAP client talking to the OpenLDAP server and only sketchy doc on how it can be achieved.
  
  
• In particular, found this problem time and time again...

          ldapclient -v -P LDAP_Profile.ldif 130.88.100.77:389
      

  get

          found 0 namingcontexts
          Cannot find the rootDN
      

  
  
  
• ...various sources on the web suggested that the above was caused by the Solaris client trying to use optional features from the LDAP protocol not implemented by OpenLDAP, hence the failure, and suggested creating the /var/ldap config files manually (see below) and suggested all would be well...
  
  
• According to Sun Documentation (Page 22) the Sun LDAP Client one needs Version 3 LDAP capabilities, in particular:
  • Simple Page Mode Control (RFC 2696);
  • Virtual List Views.
  and according to the OpenLDAP FAQ (What LDAPv3 features/extensions does the OpenLDAP server [not] support?)
  NOT: Simple Paged Result Control (RFC 2696); Can't find anything about Virtual List Views (but found this: There are numerous extensions which are not specified in RFCs or other stable documents. As these do not yet have specifications we can reference, they are not listed here (and likely not implemented in OpenLDAP).