Urs Meli

Today I was struggling with LDAP.

The Domino Server has directory assistance over 2 address books activated.

Problem: Got LDAP error 50 - authentication error and only the users from the second adressbook were visible.

Always got the same problem, even with administrator credentials.

After checking the default domain config document, both addressbook's ACL's, directory assistance and searching the internet I found an interesting ini setting:
On the server console: set config ldapdebug=7
turns ldap debugging on.
Connecting with the LDAP administrator user I saw a strange message like "User CN=XYZ has no read access to names.nsf" on the console.
But the user was in the ACL (Manager) and could open the names.nsf in the notes client.

Comparing the 2 adressbooks I discovered that in names.nsf the "maximum internet name and password" was set to "No Access".
After changeing it to reader, everything worked!

I always thought that this "Maximum Internet name and password" setting was for http access only.





 

Domino Designer 8.5 looks great. Works great. One thing which has to be improved, besides LS custom class browser, is switching ID's.

It's still not as it used to be in the old days.....

My DDE will crash after some switching, between developer and testing ID's especially when I've got the debugger turned on.

Short tipp: If you plan to enable db2 on a remote server, don't start the local DB2 command center.

I did it to test the connection between my domino server and the db2 server. Afterwards I was not able to enable the db2 on the domino server.
I got a strange communication error. And some hint about the catalog.

So I started the command center, removed my db2 node from the list. Tada! Now I could enable  the db2 on my domino.

DB2 integration is quite tricky. Converting a notes database to DB2 is simple. But the impacts can be horrible :-)
I tried it with a simple database, no problem.
A more advanced database with 350 views didn't work as expected. I was able to open the database but some views won't display.
I got a "index is corrupt...." message when I've tried to open it. Compact, fixup, updall nothing worked. I tried it with 3 different copies, all with the same result.

Either google nor the notes forum had a solution for that problem. Tomorrow I have to test it with some other databases...

Today I tested the NSFDB2. The installation was *cough* easy. The hardes part, was to find the Tutorial from last years course :-)

After 4h I got eveything up and running on my VMWare server. Setup looks like:

1 Domain Controller Win2003

1 Domino 8.0.2 Server

1 DB2 Enterprise 9.5 Server

Impressions so far:

• My first database got corrupted, when I transfered it to the DB2.
• When I transfered the second database, my db2 server ran out of hd space
• After expanding the disksize, I encountered several errors 1042c, 1065n
  It turned out that my db2 server lost the connection to my domain controller, therefor the db2 service account was not able to start.
  Rebooting the whole VMWare server, and checking all the network configurations, everything is now ok.

I hope it works all fine now.