Friday, September 16, 2011

Parameter referral is not present Error

While connecting to AD /LDAP server using java API's you may see "Parameter referral is not present" error.

One basic reason for this error is if your LDAP /AD server holds/contains a subtree starting from a specific entry and the sub entries/children of these entries holds references to other servers. and you are attempting to acces these entries but the reference server is not able to return those entries .