Problems binding to LDAP

From:
kevin wright <k.d.wright@ntlworld.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Mon, 06 Nov 2006 22:44:21 GMT
Message-ID:
<pan.2006.11.06.22.48.39.435618@ntlworld.com>
Hi Guys,

I am having problems trying to bind an object to an OpenLdap server (Fedora Linux). I
connect to the server ok but when I try and bind my object I get the following
error message:

javax.naming.OperationNotSupportedException: [LDAP: error code 53 - no global
superior knowledge]; remaining name 'cn=Current'
Naming exception thrown

Having searched on Google I feel that the problem might be that I
am not telling Ldap where to place my entry, but I'm not sure.

Source code is below:

Any thoughts?

Kevin Wright.

import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
import javax.naming.*;
import javax.naming.directory.*;

class Robot implements Serializable{

}

public class TestLdap{

    public static void main(String[] args){
        System.out.println("start");
        Hashtable env = new Hashtable();
        env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY,
                "com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory");
        env.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL,
                "ldap://localhost:389");
        env.put(Context.SECURITY_AUTHENTICATION,"simple");

        try{
        DirContext ctx = new InitialDirContext(env);
        // Try to bind something to the name.
        //Attributes attrs = new BasicAttributes(true);
        //Attribute objclass = new BasicAttribute("objectclass");
        //objclass.add("top");
        //objclass.add("extensibleobject");
        //attrs.put(objclass);
        //attrs.put("hobby", "computing");
            System.out.println("try and do the bind");
        Robot r = new Robot();
        ctx.bind("cn=Current", r );

        }
        catch(NamingException ne){
            System.err.println( ne );
            System.err.println("Naming exception thrown");
        }

    }

}

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