Yes, I’ve done that – used local root to ssh into the Master and perform commands as root on that machine – all fine. Have just updated the local server to 10.5.6 to match the master. Going to give it another go. Also port-forwarded LDAP (389) on the router to the local server which I hadn’t done before.
Will test that now.
No, still no joy. Exactly the same, with no errors reported or anything.