Ok…I was unable to connect to the mail server with a username and password. I was able to browse the server for the principle/bindDN but when I used principle=“CN=Mary User,O=Our Organization” I got an invalid credentials error. I am able to log in to lotus email with that username and password however. In fact using a username to connect via softerra ldap administrator I am not even prompted for a password.
I was able to connect anonymously with the following:
BaseDN=blank
Bind DN/principle=blank, no credentials. Actual text in the principle field was “CN=Configuration,DC=my,DC=domain.” I am then prompted for a password which I leave blank. I then get the domino directory with all the users and groups.
Turned off anonymous access at the mail server and still could not log in with a valid username and password.
We went ahead and left Anonymous access over TCP/IP is ENABLED in place, I am going to have to change the firewall to only allow specific IPs to connect over port 389 now.
I would love to hear if anyone knows why we could connect anonymously and not with a userid and pw.
Thanks for the direction and I hope this info might help somebody else, even though I am still about 50% clueless here
Lynne
BTW, this is in reference to: