Environment
Novell eDirectory 8.8 for Linux
Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 (OES 2) Situation
NAMCD won't start and reports following ERROR: "Failed to get LDAP handle. Make sure you have LDAP server Certificates in /var/lib/novell-lum"
Resolution
Edit the /etc/nam.conf configuration file and below the type-of-authentication=2 line add the following lines :-
- certificate-file-type=der
- ldap-ssl-port=636
After the lines mentioned in points 1 and 2 the following lines should appear :
- ldap-port=389
- support-alias-name=no
- support-outside-base-context=yes
- If the certificates do not appear in the /var/lib/novell-lum directory, use the "namconfig -k" command to export the certificates.