Hi there, I have Samba 2.2.3a configured to access openLDAP 2.0.18 for authentication. The autentication via ldap protocol works fine. Then I tried to enable SSL to connect samba with the LDAP server. Calling smbasswd generates this: #/usr/local/samba/bin/smbpasswd atuttle -D9 New SMB password: Retype new SMB password: ldap_open_connection: connection opened Bind failed: Can't contact LDAP server Failed to find entry for user atuttle. Failed to modify password entry for user atuttle Both options for "ldap ssl" fail: "on" as well as "start_tls". There is communication between ldap and samba on the right port, here's the ldap output for ldap ssl=on: connection_get(10): got connid=2 connection_read(10): checking for input on id=2 TLS trace: SSL_accept:before/accept initialization TLS trace: SSL_accept:SSLv3 read client hello A TLS trace: SSL_accept:SSLv3 write server hello A TLS trace: SSL_accept:SSLv3 write certificate A TLS trace: SSL_accept:SSLv3 write server done A TLS trace: SSL_accept:SSLv3 flush data TLS trace: SSL_accept:error in SSLv3 read client certificate A TLS trace: SSL_accept:error in SSLv3 read client certificate A connection_get(10): got connid=2 connection_read(10): checking for input on id=2 TLS trace: SSL_accept:SSLv3 read client key exchange A TLS trace: SSL_accept:SSLv3 read finished A neither TLS trace: SSL_accept:SSLv3 write change cipher spec A TLS trace: SSL_accept:SSLv3 write finished A TLS trace: SSL_accept:SSLv3 flush data connection_get(10): got connid=2 connection_read(10): checking for input on id=2 ber_get_next TLS trace: SSL3 alert read:warning:close notify ber_get_next on fd 10 failed errno=0 (Success) connection_read(10): input error=-2 id=2, closing. connection_closing: readying conn=2 sd=10 for close connection_close: conn=2 sd=10 TLS trace: SSL3 alert write:warning:close notify# Global parameters my smb.conf looks like this: [global] workgroup = MYGROUP encrypt passwords = Yes log level = 10 preferred master = False domain master = False ldap server = server.syngenio.de ldap suffix = ou=People,dc=syngenio,dc=de ldap admin dn = cn=Manager,dc=syngenio,dc=de Is there something I might have configured wrong? I configured ssh to authenticate via LDAP using SSL and it works fine TIA Ullrich Rieger