>> So it looks like it's attempting a connection to the LDAP server in >> NSS_LDAP >> somewhere, possibly looking for the current uid, and then looking in >> /etc/hosts >> for the current host name. > What process is this strace from? ns-slapd? httpd.worker? httpd.worker. It's the admin server that's failing, the DS is working fine. > What user and group is the server running as? Does it have to make an > nss_ldap call to get these user IDs? If so, then this is likely the > problem. The user and group are ldap.ldap (I decided for consistency's sake to use the pre-existing user accounts when converting across from OpenLDAP). The user accounts are in /etc/passwd and /etc/group and not in LDAP so there should be no nss_ldap call to find them. /etc/nsswitch.conf says: passwd: files ldap shadow: files ldap group: files ldap -- Del Babel Com Australia http://www.babel.com.au/ ph: 02 9368 0728 fax: 02 9368 0758