Ldap connection issue

[aammendolia]

I've installed Bi Server 2.0 stable on RHEL 5.2.
I want to connect external LDAP for users authentication and I follow this howto:
http://wiki.pentaho.com/display/ServerDoc2x/Changing+to+the+LDAP+Security+DAO
But don't seems to be work.
I can't access at BI server with a ldap user.
Any ideas?
Thanks.

[JasonM]

I too have had no luck getting LDAP working, is there a guide getting authentication working with an existing Directory structure rather than the Ldif example that is mentioned in "aammendolia"s Link.

Would be really useful if someone could also explain how to log attempts at authentication via LDAP and what credentials fail.

Seems there are a lot of posts about LDAP, perhaps the guide is to brief.

The Community Edition Documentation is not very encouraging for those considering the Enterprise Edition, will it too be so fiddly to get simple features working?

[balazsb]

I've got it working with Active Directory which is a special kind of LDAP server, and also earlier with OpenLDAP.

Here is the detailed configuration:
http://wiki.pentaho.com/display/ServerDoc2x/Active+Directory+configuration+example+%28CE+3.0RC1%29

To see what happens between the BI Server and the LDAP server, use Wireshark or tcpdump. (I used tcpdump on the server to dump the network packets and then copied the dump file to my workstation so I could look at them with Wireshark.)

A successful login will search for the LDAP user, determine the DN, then authenticate as this user. After that, it will search for the groups the user is member of. Those groups must match the group names in the Pentaho and the Acegi configurations.