[xtreme-one]

Your base search is just o=mydepartment, make sure you have the entire path ie...ou=people,dc=company,dc=com

My LDAP server is a Novell eDirectory server and the o is the base container. That was something that caused me grief earlier in my quest. Since the test works fine I'd be very unhappy to find that the scope is not correct. In other words I have nothing other than the TREE name which is at the Root of the container and I cannot scope to it using dc as I have tried already.

For external authentication, try this filter uid=%u or cn=%u

Changing the the filter to cn=%u did the trick for the authentication! Thanks very much! I do wonder why?

For your GAL question, you can definitely get more than just cn data....here's my GAL filter - (|(uid=*%s*)(sn=*%s*)(givenName=*%s*)) ..of course this also depends on your LDAP config.

My question here is how do you map this data into something usable in Zimbra. My example was that when I open a GAL list it gives two items cn and email. Since my userid is mapped to cn when users pull up this listing they see peoples login ID's and not their names. I would like to list the names, not userid's and their email addresses. Make sense?

thanks again for the pointers!