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sternfan

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Feb 8, 2010 1:48 PM

Move users to an OU, spark/openfire no longer works?

Hi all,

Latest versions of openfire & spark - LDAP = 2003 AD.

My base dn is pretty simple - cn=Users,dc=domain,dc=local. Users run fine as long as they are in the USERS container, but if I move them to an OU, they get nothing but problems. I tried putting ou=newou in the base dn, and nothing works.

So my Q - how do I put OUs in the search? Or do all the users have to stay in the Users container?

Any help greatly appreciated,

Rob

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Feb 8, 2010 4:25 PM (in response to sternfan)
Re: Move users to an OU, spark/openfire no longer works?

if you move your users to OUs you need to adjust your baseDN accordingly. however all users must be in the new OU or a sub OU if you make it the baseDN (i.e ou=newou,dc=domain,dc=local).

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- sternfan
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  Feb 8, 2010 5:19 PM (in response to sixthring)
  Re: Move users to an OU, spark/openfire no longer works?
  
  Thanks for the prompt reply.
  
  So if I put user accounts in seperate OUs, how do I setup openfire so that all users can have access? Or is there no way around this?
  
  Thanks,
  Rob
  
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    Feb 9, 2010 5:43 AM (in response to sternfan)
    Re: Move users to an OU, spark/openfire no longer works?
    
    There are may ways. The best, IMO, is to create a nested tree of OUs. For example:
    
    UsersOU
    UsersSubOU1
    UsersSubOU2
    UsersSubOU3
    LDAPGroupsOU (this would be security groups used specifically for LDAP applications)
    ComputersOU
    ComputerGroup1
    ComputerGroup2
    ComputerGroup3
    
    If you do something like this point your baseDN to the UsersOU. It will find all users and groups in the subOUs too.
    
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      Feb 9, 2010 5:50 AM (in response to sixthring)
      Re: Move users to an OU, spark/openfire no longer works?
      
      Thanks, you've been a great help. Just to be clear - what would the DN look like? (I remember reading somewhere that openfire has issues with ou= types of statements) something like this? <new OU is alluserou>
      
      cn=allusersou,dc=domain,dc=local
      
      Or should it have something like ou=alluserou,dc=domain,dc=local ?
      
      Thanks,
      Rob
      
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        Feb 9, 2010 5:52 AM (in response to sternfan)
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        ou=alluserou,dc=domain,dc=local
        
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        Feb 9, 2010 6:01 AM (in response to sixthring)
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        Wow, you are fast. Thanks for all the help.
        
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