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LDAP authentication with AD always returns: ERROR ScopedLDAPConnection - Search for DN 'dc=xyz,dc=net' gave error: Operations error

hughkelley
Path Finder

My authentication and role mapping seem to be working fine, but I see many of these errors in the splunkd log (one for each web login):

ERROR ScopedLDAPConnection - Search for DN 'dc=xyz,dc=net' gave error: Operations error

Where do they come from?

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I-Man
Communicator

This happened in our environment when we switched from Windows to Linux. The AD config is exactly the same and only the linux machines have the error message...

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ithangasamy_spl
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

this is likely due to a unfollowed referrals in your AD

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mthierbel
Explorer

Can you elaborate on this?

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