[Fedora-directory-users] Problem with WindowsSync

[David Boreham]

Sören Malchow wrote:

>
> i can see this message when duming network traffic between DS and AD, 
> and when i look at the dump with ethereal this message shows up 
> thousands of time.
>
> Ok one after another
>
> 1. DS uses the AD user i used for sync to successfully bind to AD
>
> 2. The DS issues a search request for the correct Base DN
>
> 3. AD answers
>
>         - 1. answer seems to be search result
>         - 2. - nth answer seems to be individual CNs, but in this case 
> i can see either
>
>                 "Can't parse message ID: Wrong type for that item" 
> prepended by "Invalid LDAP packet"
>                 or
>                 "Can't parse sequence header: Wrong type for that 
> item" prepended by "Invalid LDAP message"
>
>         in ethereal.
>
Ah, I see. I'd suspect a bug in ethereal : I've used it to decode the
protocol stream between FDS and AD more times than I can remember,
and haven't seen that error. It's as if ethereal is not decoding the
packet correctly. Are you running a recent version of ethereal ?