> PADL (usually in /etc/ldap.conf): > referrals yes Many thanks for both replies ... This looked good but I tried it and I still get the same error in syslog. Hmm. The binds are all anonymous and work fine so there doesn't seem to be a bind DN issue. http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/deploy/7.1/dit.html#100588 9 Ah - this is more what I wanted but it appears that you can't do Virtual DITs from roots - has to be from an OU, for example, which is annoying since that means I have to create a new datbase for the old dc=x,dc=y and create an OU so I can create a virtual DIT view. What a game! I just want to redirect all queries for one thing somewhere else ...