Hi, I am having the exact same issue: - fresh install of 389-ds (version 1.2.1-1.fc14) - server config: (as per http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Howto:AdminServerLDAPMgmt) nsAdminAccessAddresses: * nsAdminAccessHosts: - servers are running (dirsrv/dirsrv-admin) - firewall is disabled (all traffic is accepted) - SELinux is disabled - curl can access auth url locally, see below: [shadowuser@icicle ~]$ curl http://localhost:9830/admin-serv/authenticate <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <html><head> <title>401 Authorization Required</title> </head><body> <h1>Authorization Required</h1> <p>This server could not verify that you are authorized to access the document requested. Either you supplied the wrong credentials (e.g., bad password), or your browser doesn't understand how to supply the credentials required.</p> <hr> <address>Apache/2.2 Server at localhost Port 9830</address> </body></html> server log insists that access is denied for this ip, see below: [Mon Nov 29 22:26:37 2010] [crit] openLDAPConnection(): util_ldap_init failed for ldap://:389 [Mon Nov 29 22:26:37 2010] [warn] Unable to open initial LDAPConnection to populate LocalAdmin tasks into cache. [Mon Nov 29 22:26:38 2010] [notice] Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) configured -- resuming normal operations [Mon Nov 29 22:26:38 2010] [crit] openLDAPConnection(): util_ldap_init failed for ldap://:389 [Mon Nov 29 22:26:38 2010] [warn] Unable to open initial LDAPConnection to populate LocalAdmin tasks into cache. [Mon Nov 29 22:26:56 2010] [notice] [client 127.0.0.1] admserv_host_ip_check: Unauthorized host ip=127.0.0.1, connection rejected [Mon Nov 29 22:27:37 2010] [notice] [client 127.0.0.1] admserv_host_ip_check: Unauthorized host ip=127.0.0.1, connection rejected [Mon Nov 29 22:27:54 2010] [notice] [client 127.0.0.1] admserv_host_ip_check: Unauthorized host ip=127.0.0.1, connection rejected [Mon Nov 29 22:28:02 2010] [notice] [client 127.0.0.1] admserv_host_ip_check: Unauthorized host ip=127.0.0.1, connection rejected [Mon Nov 29 22:28:05 2010] [notice] [client 127.0.0.1] admserv_host_ip_check: Unauthorized host ip=127.0.0.1, connection rejected [Mon Nov 29 22:41:27 2010] [notice] [client 127.0.0.1] admserv_host_ip_check: Unauthorized host ip=127.0.0.1, connection rejected What could be wrong? Regards Trisooma -- 389 users mailing list 389-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/389-users