Re: python-ldap, Zope, and NDS

Timothy Wilson wrote:
> 
> our NDS (v7.45) directory.
> [..]
> 'Browse' tab, I got an INVALID_DN_SYNTAX error.
> [..]
> problem lies in searching with SCOPE_ONELEVEL.
> [..]
> "ou=do, o=ISD_197"
         ^
Those spaces sometimes confuse the libs. I usually normalize the DNs
(deleting those spaces etc.).

> >>> import ldap
> >>> l = ldap.open("10.3.6.1", 389)
> >>> l.simple_bind_s("o=ISD_197", "")
> >>> test1 = l.search_s("ou=do, o=ISD_197", ldap.SCOPE_SUBTREE,
> "objectclass=*")
> >>> test2 = l.search_s("ou=do, o=ISD_197", ldap.SCOPE_ONELEVEL,
> "objectclass=*")
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> ldap.INVALID_DN_SYNTAX: {'desc': 'Invalid DN syntax'}

IMHO this exception message is generated by the server.

You might wanna check if my package http://web2ldap.de is able to
browse your server.

> I changed the reference in ZLDAP.py to SCOPE_SUBTREE and ZLDAP works fine.

Strange.

> Except, and this is a big 'except,' when I try to browse our entire tree. I
> think that using SCOPE_SUBTREE is causing the search to retrieve the same
> data over and over again.

When browsing you should limit the attributes to receive for saving
bandwidth and server load. See web2ldap.

Ciao, Michael.