Sun has announced they will no longer support nis or nisplus in the future and the upgrade path is to LDAP using the iplanet directory server 5.1 on Solaris 9. I upgraded a test environment that is now serving hosts, netgroups, passwd, group, and autmount tables via LDAP. I have Solaris and AIX clients binding to this server. Data Ontap 6.4 came with ldap support but I haven't had any luck getting it to work. I would like to get hosts, passwd, group, and netgetgroup services from LDAP.

Here is a listing of my settings:

options ldap

ldap.base dc=my,dc=domain,dc=com ldap.enable on ldap.name cn=proxyagent,ou=profile,dc=my,dc=domain,dc=com ldap.passwd ****** ldap.port 389 ldap.servers 1xx.2xx.1xx.xx ldap.servers.preferred 1xx.2xx.1xx.xx

cat /etc/nsswitch.conf

passwd: ldap files hosts: ldap files group: ldap files netgroup: ldap files

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I make added these changes and tested it by pinging a host that is in the ldap database and had no luck.

-Mark