authenticating via external LDAP

[linuxos77]

I have successfully configured the latest Zimbra to use our LDAP server for authentication using the Authentication wizard in the admin UI. Well at least I think I configured it successfully. I completed the wizard and the test login at the last step completed successfully. Now, how to I set this LDAP to be the default authentication for the Zimbra web UI? I have tried simply restarting the service, but still cannot login to the web interface using my LDAP account. I have a network sniffer on the zimbra server and it doesn't even attempt to query the LDAP server on a web login (it did query during the authentication wizard, so I know there's no firewall rule or anything like that). Must be missing a step somewhere. I followed the LDAP section on the Zimbra wiki step for step.

[p24t]

Have you added a user account for your login name? Zimbra still needs an account for your user, the LDAP is just used for password purposes.

[linuxos77]

Really? . Hmmmm, is there a way to import all our LDAP users into Zimbra? We already have an LDAP server and want Zimbra to get it's account information from that.

[phoenix]

You need to provision users in Zimbra, if you don't do that their accounts (and various other bits) don't get created. Dump the relevant data from your LDAP and write a script to provision the in Zimbra, look at the wiki and search the forums - this has been covered a few times.