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JoelFan
Asked: 2009-09-02 11:02:15 +0800 CST

"A referral was returned from the server" from ActiveDirectory plugin

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I am using (trying to anyway) an ActiveDirectory plugin for ScrewTurn wiki called UserAuth (by "ElectricImages"). Whenever a user logs into the Wiki's login page with correct network credentials (provides domain\user and password), they get a login error and the ScrewTurn log shows the message Authentication of ...... failed: A referral was returned from the server.

If the user gives the wrong password, then the log says Authentication of ...... failed: Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password, so it seems that ActiveDirectory is in fact getting the authentication info.

What could be going wrong?

windows

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    OK, I fixed it... There were 2 problems:

    1. I needed to use the fully qualified name, e.g. Source=ServerFault.com (as suggested by squillman)

    2. I needed to change the "Anonymous Access" user in IIS to be a network user that has access to Active Directory (previously, it was a local machine user)

    Thanks all who helped!

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  2. Directory referral messages often indicate that you're either binding to the directory in the wrong place or that you're doing some kind of cross-domain query against a server that might be in the same forest but isn't responsible for the domain in question. What are you using for the Source configuration tag? Do you have a domain controller at the site where your server is that is authoritative for that domain?

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  3. I have seen this when when the Base DN was set to legit-looking, but non-existant DN.

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