python-ldap - Operations Error

[Michael Ströder]

theiviaxx at gmail.com wrote:
> Thanks for the help guys, it works!  I used the
> ldap.set_option(ldap.OPT_REFERRALS, 0) from http://peeved.org/blog/2007/11/20/

Hmm, maybe I should generally switch off referral chasing in python-ldap 
forcing applications to enable it if needed overriding libldap's 
default. I did this already for LDAPObject.protocol_version where 
libldap's default is LDAPv2 and python-ldap sets it to LDAPv3 in 
LDAPObject.__init__(). Although this was an incompatible change no-one 
complained.

> immedialtey after import, then did the initialize trace_level=2 and
> did the simple_bind_s.  I was able to search and get the results.
> That trace_level thing is nice, i'm sure i will be debugging this more
> as i move forward :)
> 
> Not sure if this is an AD thing or just something i needed to do with
> our particular server/config.

Basically the concept of LDAPv3 referrals is broken since there's no 
concept for specifying how to bind to the referral's target without 
a-priori local configuration. See also an old posting to 
news:microsoft.public.windows.server.active_directory related to this:

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.server.active_directory/msg/d061e0398cc366a5

Ciao, Michael.