topic Re: Counld not find userBaserDN on the LDAP server in Splunk Search

Counld not find userBaserDN on the LDAP server

sridharanreddy — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:19:22 GMT

I am find few challenges to configure LDAP. Please help me out with this error?

Re: Counld not find userBaserDN on the LDAP server

krugger — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:42:58 GMT

Go to:

Manager » Access controls » Authentication method » LDAP strategies » YourLDAP

And check the user base DN. It will depend on your AD layout. Example:

OU=YouruserOU,DC=internal,DC=splunk,DC=com

Usually I want all users from a certain AD security group. So I put:



user base filter: (objectclass=user)

user name attribute: samaccountname

real name attribute: cn

group mapping attribute: dn

And then in the group section I put:

Group Base DN: OU=Groups,OU=YouruserOU,DC=internal,DC=splunk,DC=com
static group search filter: (name=Splunk)
group name attribute: cn
static member attribute: member

These config assum there is a group name Splunk in the AD and people allowed to use splunk should be a member of this group. So you have to adapt it to your AD layout.

Re: Counld not find userBaserDN on the LDAP server

sridharanreddy — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 12:01:44 GMT

Still i am facing the same error, what might be the issue.

The Splunk Server is presently live.

Re: Counld not find userBaserDN on the LDAP server

krugger — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:26:10 GMT

Are you sure you have your user base DN pointing to something that exists in your AD structure?