https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/LDAP-authentication-with-AD-always-returns-ERROR/m-p/57458#M1917 <P>this is likely due to a unfollowed referrals in your AD</P> Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:06:40 GMT ithangasamy_spl 2011-10-11T18:06:40Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/LDAP-authentication-with-AD-always-returns-ERROR/m-p/57457#M1916 <P>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):</P> <P>ERROR ScopedLDAPConnection - Search for DN 'dc=xyz,dc=net' gave error: Operations error</P> <P>Where do they come from?</P> Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:16:34 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/LDAP-authentication-with-AD-always-returns-ERROR/m-p/57457#M1916 hughkelley 2011-03-11T08:16:34Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/LDAP-authentication-with-AD-always-returns-ERROR/m-p/57458#M1917 <P>this is likely due to a unfollowed referrals in your AD</P> Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:06:40 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/LDAP-authentication-with-AD-always-returns-ERROR/m-p/57458#M1917 ithangasamy_spl 2011-10-11T18:06:40Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/LDAP-authentication-with-AD-always-returns-ERROR/m-p/57459#M1918 <P>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...</P> Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:38:48 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/LDAP-authentication-with-AD-always-returns-ERROR/m-p/57459#M1918 I-Man 2013-04-02T13:38:48Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/LDAP-authentication-with-AD-always-returns-ERROR/m-p/57460#M1919 <P>Can you elaborate on this?</P> Thu, 13 Mar 2014 20:22:55 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/LDAP-authentication-with-AD-always-returns-ERROR/m-p/57460#M1919 mthierbel 2014-03-13T20:22:55Z