Filtering Groups on Windows Active Directory using LDAP Authentication

Question

Hi All,
I have small module that filters the groups from the Windows AD using LDAP attributes and flushes the data into the DB[code below].
This module was developed and tested on weblogic 8.1[on windows]and works fine.
Now the same is moved to another environment- Websphere on Linux Suse. The code fails to retreieve any value from the Windows AD.
Please note no exception is aslo thrown.
env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY,ldapCtxFactory);
          //set security credentials, note using simple cleartext authentication
          env.put(Context.SECURITY_AUTHENTICATION,authentication);
          env.put(Context.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL,adminName);
          env.put(Context.SECURITY_CREDENTIALS,adminPassword);
          //connect to my domain controller
          env.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, domainController);
          // Create the initial directory context
          try {
                              dirCtx = new InitialDirContext(env);
               // Create the search controls           
               SearchControls searchCtls = new SearchControls();
               //Specify the attributes to return
               String returnedAtts[]={"member"};
               searchCtls.setReturningAttributes(returnedAtts);
               //Specify the search scope
               searchCtls.setSearchScope(SearchControls.SUBTREE_SCOPE);
               int totalResults = 0;
               int iteration=0;
               // Search for objects using the filter
               NamingEnumeration results = ctx.search(searchBase, searchFilter, searchCtls);
In the above code the method exits even before the try block[i could detect this using Sysout's]
Below is the property file from which the values are read.
admin=username
password=password
#AD search attributes
searchBase=DC=domainname,DC=domainname
searchFilter=(&(objectClass=group) (CN=value*))
#JNDI context attributes
ldapCtxFactory=com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory
authentication=simple
domainController=ldap://address
groupPattern=pattern
Please Assit,
Thanks in Advance
Message was edited by:
radiant
Message was edited by:
radiant

Answer 1

Assuming it is the same Active Directory environment and only your Java platform has changed, the I can only assume that if no exception is thrown, and no data is returned, then the credentials you are using on the new Java platform are being mapped to an anonymous user (perhaps a blank password ?). By default, Windows Server 2003 domains, do not return any results to anonymous users.