LDAP module configuration - misleading error ("Invalid ldap credentials")

Hi all,

I am trying to configure the LDAP module but I get the below errors (and weird behaviour)

• When I execute the test connection button in the customer's environment, I get the error “Invalid ldap credentials”
• When looking at the logs in Mendix, I get a different error “Failed to authenticate because of exception: 10.255.255.1:389; nested exception is javax.naming.CommunicationException: 10.255.255.1:389 [Root exception is java.net.SocketTimeoutException: connect timed out]”
  • When I tried to find out which IP was that, it turns out that IP didn’t exist in the customer's environment
• I then tried to run the same test, but this time with dummy data, and got exactly the same error
  • The error should have been different and so should the IP address, as the server didn't exist (server name was "aqweqwkas")
• I then tried to run the same tests, but this time in my local environment (laptop) – again using dummy data
  • Error message almost the same, but instead of "connect timed out" I got "No route to host: connect" (Failed to authenticate because of exception: 10.255.255.1:389; nested exception is javax.naming.CommunicationException: 10.255.255.1:389 [Root exception is java.net.NoRouteToHostException: No route to host: connect])
    • What confuses me is that the IP is exactly the same as in the customer's environment(!!)

When I debug using the modeler, all the values in the LDAP server variable seem correct and I cannot find any trace of that IP address. Unfortunately, when I exported the project to Java to try to debug in Eclipse, I got over 7000 errors. Has anyone seen this before? Am I missing something simple here? This is a brand new project with just the LDAP, Email, Community Commons, MxModeler and Encryption modules installed.

Many thanks

Gonçalo