trying a few more things: compiled apache 2.2.2 with Sun Microsystems Inc. LDAP SDK that came with solaris: $ pkginfo -l SUNWlldap PKGINST: SUNWlldap NAME: LDAP Libraries CATEGORY: system ARCH: sparc VERSION: 11.8.0,REV=2000.01.08.18.12 BASEDIR: / VENDOR: Sun Microsystems, Inc. DESC: Ldap libraries in for software development of dynamically linked executables PSTAMP: on28-patch20040428123135 INSTDATE: Aug 06 2004 06:00 apache behavior is the same - if i do not bind to the root directly, but provide OU, then it works. if i do not provide OU, it seems to get into a loop when it searches for the sAMAccountName, gets a result with a reference, searches the reference, unbinds, and then repeats the whole thing (i have network traces to confirm this). changing values of AuthLDAPDereferenceAliases has no effect on this behavior. any suggestions? i think i am about ready to file a bug/enhancement report for ldap + active directory. thank you. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx