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<P><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=432102300-11082010>Kevin,</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=432102300-11082010>Thank you for
your suggestions.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P><SPAN class=432102300-11082010></SPAN><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=432102300-11082010>></SPAN>Try using the ldapsearch command line
client, I find it is much closer to the way the perl ldap library is connecting.
Once you make that </FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=432102300-11082010>></SPAN>connect, the same user should be fine. One
thing about AD is that sometimes the AD server responds better to a user of
</FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=432102300-11082010>></SPAN>sAMAccountName@domain (email address style
login) rather than a full DN, but I've never found an explanation for
why.</FONT></FONT></P>
<P><SPAN class=432102300-11082010><FONT size=2 face=Arial>yes, I had been
trying to use ldapsearch but was getting bogged down in getting it configured to
work. First had to install OpenLdap which also depended on BerkeleyDB,
then ran out of HDD space and finally gave up. I was able to get it to run
but n</FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=432102300-11082010><FONT size=2 face=Arial>ever
did get it to return anything at the command line. Ended up I
was able to to get things working without that and without resorting to the <A
href="mailto:sAMAccountName@domain">sAMAccountName@domain</A> format (see my
reply today to Mike Johnson), but may try it as a test anyway just to have an
alternative in case something down the road requires it.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN class=432102300-11082010><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I appreciate the
help.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN class=432102300-11082010><FONT size=2
face=Arial>Sincerely,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN class=432102300-11082010><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Gene
Evans</FONT></SPAN></P></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>