Re: Problm in connecting ldap

Hi,

On Thursday, 26. July 2007 10:59, Muhammad Azam Akram wrote:
>   I am new to perl-ldap, and have a problem. First I would like to
>  describe the scenrio..
>   On my computer I installed cygwin and perl. I wanted to access ldap
>  server, so I instslled the required modules, which works fine and I can
>  access records in ldap server.
>   The problem is...
>   Now I am login to a remote machine through remote desktop
>  communication. In this machine I do not have cygwin and have to work on
> windows command line. I installed the required perl module. But when I try
> to access ldap server system by
>
>   $ldap = Net::LDAP->new($myserver) or die "$@";
>
>   System give error like,
>   IO::SOCKET::INET bad hostname.....

This is an error message produced by IO::Socket::INET,
one of the basic Perl modules the perl-ldap uses.

Iam not 100% sure what it indicates exactly. but I
guess it has problems resolving the hostname of the server.

Peter

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