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Virtuoso
Virtuoso

AD Plugin and Global Catalog forest root search

Is it possible to configure the AD plugin to work with a global catalog and search from the forest root?  I don't see any mention of this in the documentation for the 2.x plugin.  There is almost no documentation on the configuration.

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igaydajiev
VMware Employee
VMware Employee

Yes it should work. When connecting to AD server there is no difference from client point of view. AD plugin will connect to whatever port is provied and in case there is global catalog it will be just fine.

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Virtuoso
Virtuoso

I'm able to connect to the port hosting the global catalog but I can't set the search base to the forest root.  I have to set it to the base of the domain which means one host per domain.  Hopefully I am using the right terminology here..

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igaydajiev
VMware Employee
VMware Employee

As far as I remeber each forest has a root domain. Probably you should be able to provide it as base and this might allow you to search also in subdomain's tree.

Not surea bout domain from another tree.
Let me see if I can try it out tommorow in my envrionment.

At seconf glance and acording to this example JNDI, Active Directory, Referrals and Global Ca... | Oracle Community in order to search global catalog you need to provide an empty sting base which I believe is not allowed with current implementtaion of the plugin. You can open a ticket to vmware for proper tracking/prioritization and I will take a look meanwhile..

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Virtuoso
Virtuoso

Looking at that article you referenced this sounds like our environment:

"and you can also have discontiguous names for domain trees (Eg. antipodes.com, foobar.com, acme.com can all exist in the same forest)"

We have a peer domain structure not sub domains.  It doesn't really buy me a whole lot connecting to the gc if I can't search the whole forest.

I'll go ahead and open a support case.

Paul

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