Common LDAP Errors

The two most common errors that you may encounter are the following:

• (38) LDAP local: Invalid credentials - this error simply means that the password that you are supplying is incorrect for the user that you have provided with the -u option. If you are trying to authenticate as the administrative user, make sure that you provide a proper distinguished name (such as CN=Administrator,CN=Users,DC=hostname,DC=local).
• (39) LDAP remote: Operations error - this message usually indicates that some aspect of the distinguished name that you are querying is incorrect. The distinguished name is the sum of the CN and DC statements in your URL. Make sure that the name of your active directory domain matches the DC statements in the URL that you specify, that you are specifying a valid common name entry for the resource that you want to query, and that you have used the -u (or --user) option to identify the user that you want to authenticate as.