> > I had told you to run: > > netstat -aptn > > (run this on the machine that is run the ldap service) > > If you don't have something that looks like this under "local address": > > x.x.x.x:389 > > then you are not listening for ldap connections on that machine He did. ldap is running but not opening up tcp ports. he did an output of lsof and it wasn't listening on any tcp sockets, which is odd. i think the problem is in his slapd.conf. -- Sean