Can’t Authenticate to LDAP Directory

[gspiese]

When I log in to Workgroup Manager I’m connected to the Local Directory /NetInfo/root. I created a LDAP Master but when I try to Authenticate it won’t take my login. I get the error: The login information is not valid for this server… Looking at the Users list in Workgroup Manager for the LDAP Directory, I don’t see any users. I go to Server Admin/Open Directory/Protocols and try to do a NetInfo Migration but it says NetInfo is stopped and not available in the NetInfo Domain. I tried demoting back to a Standalone Server then promoting to an Open Directory Master and enter the Admin User Name and Password, but still can’t login to the LDAP Directory to add or manage users- can’t authenticate.

Looking at my slapconfig.log I see two problems:
-gspiese is not a password server user
-geoserver.com does not resolve to a configured IP Address

Looking at the NetInfo/root Directory, the user gspiese is set to login using Open Directory. How do I get this user into the LDAP Directory?

In Server Admin I created:
Zone: geoserver.com.
Type: Master
SOA: wizard.geoserver.com.

I created a reverse lookup record mapped to the local IP of 192.168.1.25

If I use Network Utility to do a Lookup of: wizard.geoserver.com I get:
server can’t find wizard.geoserver.com:NXDOMAIN.

If I do a lookup of 192.168.1.25 I get:
Server can’t find 25.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa:NXDOMAIN

In my Server Network Settings I do have my ISP DNS’s listed along with my local DNS which is 192.168.1.25.

How do I get my LDAP setup so I can Authenticate then add users? I’m working towards having user home directories on the Server instead of locally on their hard drive.

[gspiese]

Couldn’t figure it out so I did a clean reinstall of OSX Server 10.3 and all subsequent updates to get it to 10.3.8.I can now Authenticate to the LDAP Directory and I see the user(s) I created there. But now when I launch Workgroup Manager I see LOCAL HOST and that’s what I log in to to get to the LDAP Directory. When I set-up the server I made the Host Name: geo.server.net. When I type that in and try to login I get a NO HOST error.

On another Mac on the LAN I try to resolve to the IP address (192.168.1.25) and the name (geo.server.net) but neither resolve. When doing a Lookup of 192.168.1.25 I get:

Lookup has started …

Server: 199.224.86.15
Address: 199.224.86.15#53

** server can’t find 25.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa: NXDOMAIN

Soing a Lookup of geo.server.net I get:

Lookup has started …

Server: 192.168.1.25
Address: 192.168.1.25#53

** server can’t find geo.server.net: SERVFAIL

Any help in IDing what’s going on and how to fix it would help. Apparently it’s a DNS issue, but I’m clueless on how to set it up correctly.

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