Environment
Novell Messenger 2.1
Direct Mode for Messenger Authentication
Direct Mode for Messenger Authentication
Situation
User attempting to seach archive and gets the following error: "The server has experienced a directory error. For more information, contact your system administrator".
In the "ArchiveAgent, administrator sees the following message: "APL Login failed [0xAE07] : <userID> - DDC: Could not create or duplicate a directory context."
In the "ArchiveAgent, administrator sees the following message: "APL Login failed [0xAE07] : <userID> - DDC: Could not create or duplicate a directory context."
Resolution
If customers are encountering errors using direct mode, Novell recommends switching to LDAP as the code used by the servers is much more
up-to-date.
Additional Information
Occasionally there was seen a connection lost error
from the directory and Messenger wasn't re-establishing the connection properly.
Builds after that fix (direct mode) should reconnect better on lost context
errors. However, Novell still recommends to use LDAP, as Development will have
more control over those APIs.
The DDC code used in direct mode is an unsupport API
and is dated 2003 or so.