https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Error-binding-to-LDAP/m-p/138283#M4271 <P>I'm seeing exactly the same thing and have forwarded logs to Splunk support. the problem with the log is that it spits out a very general message and doesn't give much to work with for troubleshooting.</P> Wed, 02 Dec 2015 19:10:15 GMT pcarey 2015-12-02T19:10:15Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Error-binding-to-LDAP/m-p/138282#M4270 <P>ERROR ScopedLDAPConnection - strategy="ldap-server-name" Error binding to LDAP. reason="Invalid credentials"</P> <P>The message above comes up frequently in the splunkd.log.<BR /> Authentication is currently set to anonymously bind.<BR /> LDAP users are successfully able to login to splunk.</P> <P>I've tried creating an account for splunk to use for Bind DN to see if that would resolve the issue but those entries kept coming up.<BR /> At the moment LDAP auth works with anonymous bind but the logs are just chatty. Any suggestions to fix?</P> Wed, 08 Apr 2015 14:50:06 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Error-binding-to-LDAP/m-p/138282#M4270 sysvault 2015-04-08T14:50:06Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Error-binding-to-LDAP/m-p/138283#M4271 <P>I'm seeing exactly the same thing and have forwarded logs to Splunk support. the problem with the log is that it spits out a very general message and doesn't give much to work with for troubleshooting.</P> Wed, 02 Dec 2015 19:10:15 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Error-binding-to-LDAP/m-p/138283#M4271 pcarey 2015-12-02T19:10:15Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Error-binding-to-LDAP/m-p/138284#M4272 <P>Do you currently have </P> <PRE><CODE>bindDNpassword = </CODE></PRE> <P>configured in authentication.conf (and left without a password), or is there no entry in the config at all?</P> Sat, 05 Dec 2015 02:47:39 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Error-binding-to-LDAP/m-p/138284#M4272 hortonew 2015-12-05T02:47:39Z