Failed JNDI - Active Directory binding

Question

Hello everyone,
First off, forgive me if I'm posting to the wrong place and please let me know where I should post.
I have a very simple Java application (more or less copied from the Sun tutorial on JNDI) and am trying to connect to a Win 2003 R2 domain controller with active directory configured and populated.
No matter what I try I get
Problem searching directory: javax.naming.NamingException: [LDAP: error code 1 - 00000000: LdapErr: DSID-0C090627, comment: In order to perform this operation a successful bind must be completed on the connection., data 0, vece]; remaining name 'RootDSE'
I can bind using any of the standard win32 programs including ldp.exe. I can also bind and browse using Softerra LDAP Administrator without problems. I'm obviously missing something, but I can't see what. Please help.
There is no authentication info in the code because I'm hoping that's not needed as long as I'm logged into the windows machine I'm running this on.
Here's the code:
package printerfinder00;
import java.util.Hashtable;
import java.util.jar.Attributes;
import javax.naming.Context;
import javax.naming.InitialContext;
import javax.naming.NameClassPair;
import javax.naming.NamingEnumeration;
import javax.naming.NamingException;
import javax.naming.directory.DirContext;
import javax.naming.directory.SearchControls;
import javax.naming.directory.SearchResult;
import javax.naming.ldap.InitialLdapContext;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Hashtable env = new Hashtable();
String ldapURL = "ldap://dc01.hr.local:389/";
env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory");
env.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, ldapURL);
try {
DirContext ctx = new InitialLdapContext(env, null);
SearchControls searchCtls = new SearchControls();
String returnedAtts[] = {"sn", "givenName", "mail"};
searchCtls.setReturningAttributes(returnedAtts);
searchCtls.setSearchScope(SearchControls.SUBTREE_SCOPE);
String searchFilter = "(&(objectClass=user)(mail=*))";
String searchBase = "RootDSE";
int totalResults = 0;
NamingEnumeration answer = ctx.search(searchBase, searchFilter, searchCtls);
while (answer.hasMoreElements()) {
SearchResult sr = (SearchResult) answer.next();
totalResults++;
System.out.println(">>>" + sr.getName());
Attributes attrs = (Attributes) sr.getAttributes();
if (attrs != null) {
try {
System.out.println(" surname: " + attrs.get("sn").get());
System.out.println(" firstname: " + attrs.get("givenName").get());
System.out.println(" mail: " + attrs.get("mail").get());
} catch (NullPointerException e) {
System.out.println("Errors listing attributes: " + e);
System.out.println("Total results: " + totalResults);
ctx.close();
} catch (NamingException e) {
System.err.println("Problem searching directory: " + e);
}

Answer 1

I think the error message is quite descriptive !
Problem searching directory: javax.naming.NamingException: [LDAP: error code 1 - 00000000: LdapErr: DSID-0C090627, comment: In order to perform this operation a successful bind must be completed on the connection., data 0, vece]; remaining name 'RootDSE'
Firstly you have not supplied any credentials or configured an authentication mechanism, hence you cannot perfom a search.
For simple authentication, it would be something of the form: String adminName = "FOOBAR\\administrator";
String adminPassword = "xxxxxxx";
//set security credentials, note using simple cleartext authentication
env.put(Context.SECURITY_AUTHENTICATION,"simple");
env.put(Context.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL,adminName);
env.put(Context.SECURITY_CREDENTIALS,adminPassword);Secondly, your search base is incorrect (although you haven't got to the stage where this will generate an error)
BTW, The search base will be a distinguished name of the form:"dc=foobar,dc=com"If you are perfoming this from a Windows client, and want to utilise single sign-on, then you will want to refer to the post titled "JNDI, Active Directory and Authentication (Part 1) (Kerberos)" available at http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=579829&tstart=300
Good luck...