Hello, me I have a problem since the update with the sp3. The netlet doesnot function any more. If you to use a station which then has alreadyexecute sp2 the netlet work but if this station had never use netlet thatdoes not work. I would like to have the opinion of other user. I'm ...

I'm writing several servlets ( they are running on iPlanet ApplicationServer ) that need to retrieve user profile information from iplanet portalserver. I am trying to use the portal APIs to accomplish this. Thefollowing is a small sample of what I am trying to do:SessionID sessionID = new ...

Hello all.It was brought to my attention that when logged into our company portal, anew connection is opened to the web server for every channel that I havecreated by URL scraper. Instead of opening 1 connection to the web server,it creates many (21 for this particular portal).The problem is ...

Here is the problem.I login to one domain and then open a new webpage (same browser) and loginto a 2nd domain. I can then navigate in both domains in each web page.However, when I logout of one, it logs me out of both and which ever onethat I logged out of is the logout/login page that I see ...

Hi,I am new to iPlanet Portal Server.I am trying to add a new channel to my portal server. I just followed theinstructionsavailable for QuotationProvider in the help file.Now, when I click on Content link on the home page after I login, I get ablank pagewith no data whatsoever. I was hoping to ...

Hi,I was told never to 'apply changes to sub-roles' when i make changes tochannel properties. Is there a known problem with doing this.ThanksHari

For some reason, when I set up NetMail and NetMailLite to use our iMS mailserver, I can only receive mail. When I try to send mail it gives me anerror popup that tells me to seek technical assistance.I know our mail server is not the problem, because we can send email justfine through other ...

Can someone explain this stupidity?I am attempting to upgrade and existing SP2 portal to SP3. I run theinstall script (after installing the solaris patches) and the scriptfails, telling me I do not have enough space in /etc/opt I have180 MB of space in /, how much space is needed? To my ...

I can get the currently logged in user's first name from the profile objectas p.getAttributeString("iwtUserInfoProvider-firstName") and I can get therole (assuming I set it as user-readable) asp.getAttributeString("iwtUser-role").I can't seem to figure out where to get the username they used ...

Is there a way to set the number of users that the portal can handle at onetime? Is there a max number of users that the portal can handle at a time?Thanks-Brian

Greetings,We are looking to use a web client (NetMail lite) or thin client (NetMaillite applet) with iPlanet Portal Server 6.0 sp3 out-of-the-box that willsupport POP3. It appears that NetMail lite used to support POP3, but itappears to only support IMAP now? Is this true?We are not using ...

Is there any way to force a rewrite (or NO rewrite) of a URL? For example,when adding a bookmark (or netlet address) add 'something' to the address soit's (NOT) rewritten?I think that would be a great option, so I hope this is possible....Kind Regards,Stephen Trap Stephen TrapEurASP ...

I was wondering if there is a command or some other way to find out whatversion of portal is installed that includes the SP# that is installed.Thanks,Matt

Is there a way to force a new channel to load when current users login. Sofar it seems as though the only way for current users (those that alreadyhave a profile) to find a new channel is to click on the content link andchoose it. But how will they ever know it is there if they don't do ...

Hi,Did someone try to make the Exchange Mapi work in a iPalnet Portalenviroment ? Is it possible ?I understand that MAPI is using UDP/135 en 2 other TCP port's. The UDP135 seems to be the problem.

Can you change the "Super Administrator" running this on Unix? I don't wantto user "root"If so, how?Thanks,Don

Customer wants to enable both Integrated Windows Authentication andBasic authentication. Has anyone tries to modify the Portal to supportthe Integrated Windows Authentcation (NTLM)?RgdsVeronica

With Gateway implementation, the url has been rewritten tohttps://abc.com.sg//manager .... instead ofhttps://abc/com.sg/http:/internal.com.sg/manager. Is there a way toconfigure iPlanet Portal to rewrite //manager to http://internal.com.sg/managerRgdsVeronica ...

Hi all, I want to create a bilingual portal using ips.For this purpose, I create two roles, an english role and a french one.In the console, the user's locale for the english role is en_US and for thefrench role, it's fr.In the /usr/iplanet/SUNWips/locale file, there's a fr and en_US ...

We're unable to create a JSP provider channel using the desktop channelwizard in SP2.From the admin console we get the error message "Error: An error occurredwhile creating the channel. Consult the iwtAdmin debugging files for moreinformation and seek technical assistance."The iwtAdmin error ...

Hi all,I created my own login module (like the existing Membership module) whichextends the Login class. It works just fine, and can create user profilesand allow people to log in. When I log into the admin console and try tobring up the user profile to edit the attributes for this module ...

I couldn't find any good sizing figurs, so I try it this way...When using a midrange server for gateway and one for portal, with each onecpu and 1GB memory.... how many concurrent users will this setup support ?Other sizing figures are welcome too :)TIAStephen Trap ...

Hello,is there a way to know which IP a user comes at the portal server through the gateway?It seems that all requests contain the gateway IP, and I would like to know the real IP ...thanksBob

I have recently performed a clean install of SP3 on Solaris 2.8 and am nowexperiencing problems with the ipsadmin utility. I need to import a JSPchannel definition and am unable to use either the -chkxml or -importswitches. I get back a stack trace as follows:Exception in thread "main" ...

In iPS SP3, I tried to change the bookmark channel title from "Bookmarks" to"My Favorite Links" from the iPS admin console. The admin console said thatthe change was successful, the exported LDIF for that domain (and all usersin the domain) also confirmed that the iwtBookmarkProvider-title ...

I am using iPS 3.0 SP2. We want to set the DBCS channel title.But everytime we set the channel title to DBCS, after clicked the submitbutton,we saw the garbage code in the browser.Does anyone know how to set the DBCS channel title?Thanks.Sunny

I just talked to a tech person at iPlanet about a run away ns-httpd process.He said this was fixed in SP3, but that there was a patch for SP2 that alsofixes this problem. Anyone know where to get the patch? I don't have theiplanet guy's name or phone number.

Does anyone know what is the different between the encryption andnon-encryption ips, there is a big big diffenent in prices for 1000+ usersper cpu lic.RgdsEdmond

Do anyone have more detailed step to set up netlet service on iPS, I was sofrustrated by following the admin guide.thanksEdmond

I'm running SP3 and can't get HTTP Basic Authentication to work. The checkbox inthe Gateway config is checked. I put a link on the Bookmarks channel to a sitewhich is protected with HTTP basic authentication (served up by an Apache webserver), click the link and get prompted for the http auth ...

Anyone succeeded in using published applications via Netlet?If so, is it possible to give a short example, I tried everything but can'tget it to work (desktop connection works fine though).Kind Regards,Stephen Trap Stephen TrapEurASP nvWoodrow Wilsonplein 5 EB-9000 GentFax: +32 (0)9 235 14 ...

Hi;Does anybody know how to create a fix channel on the deskop that can notbe removed by the user?thanks !

Hi!we are currently using Netscape Enterprise Server 3.63 with Compass Server 3.01. we are upgrading NES to iPlanet Web Server 4, but we're not sure what to do with Compass. we only need the searching functionality of Compass, so we don't need the whole iPlanet suite. would someone please ...

Hello,I'm trying to add users automatically based on LDAP search filter. Butthe "Search Filter" attribute setting is missing under the ExternalLDAP Configuration profile.In the Installation and Configuration Student Guide page 2-29illustratestwo attribute settings:Search attribute for ...

does anyone know or been successful using frames in a portal env? I amusing SP2 right now, but will upgrade to SP3 soon. Have tried to useframes but so far have been unable to get it working.any ideas would be appreciated

Issue with Netlet.Trying to define the following rule so non-browser application can dohttp requests over secure tunnel:WebTest|null|false|30011|<host>|80(where <host> is the relevant webserver)Getting the following error:Unable to connect to Gateway: default:443Any assistance ...

I am attempting to figure out why OWA for exchange 2k breaks, when accessedthrough the portal, when using IE. I can see when I look at the sourceof the page that two java script variable are being rewritten, g_szUserBaseand g_szVirtualRoot. I have added these to the section of gateway ...

Where can I get Service Pack 3a from iPlanet?The SP3 release notes claim the package is at http://iplanet.com/downloads/patches.Thanks,Craigcraig@isi.edu

Hi,I am having problem passing the seesion info from the Portal server to theother applications. I am running an web application through URL scrapper & ineed to get the user session info available to that application.when i in my jsp page i tried to get the session info using the code ...

Anyone try to install iPS on a standalone machine? Do you need to have DNSsetup?

Hi,I wrote my own authentication module and I can't seem to get it to work, andI can't even seem to find anything useful in the error logs.I created the class and placed it in the appropriate place in/opt/SUNWips/lib. I created the necessary .properties files in/etc/opt/SUNWips/auth/default ...

Hi,Accessing published applications using Netlet requires the citrix_start.htmlfile to have a parameter: address with value: localhostlike this <param name="address" value="localhost">We have a terminal server farm using ICA master browsing for load balancingand listing of published ...

Hello,Has anyone done any performance benchmarking on Portal Server? (Or knowwhere I can find such information?)I'm curious to know:1. Given iPlanet's recommended hardware, how many concurrent users doesthis support with decent performance (SSL to gateway to non-SSL server)?2. How does the ...

I setup a domain only have anonymous authenticate module and I can't add the channels that I like to be displayed to the login page. Is anybody know how to do that. Thanks.

Hi,I've come across a problem and not sure where the problem lies, hopesomeone can help me. When I access webmail through portal gateway(Portal 3SP2 on Solaris 8 (webmail from iMS 5.1), and attach bigattachments (>400kb through dial up, over 2MB through DSL), I eventuallyreceive this ...

Hi,I am using external LDAP for authentication. In the Ext. LDAP I am using there is an attribute named title in every user cn. I want to use this attribute for portal to decide which role the user belongs to. I mapped iwtUser-role to title in Ext. LDAP configuration. When I go to console I see ...

Hello,we have a setup of a portal gateway (in https) and a portal server separated by a firewall. We found out that the portal server also needs to communicate with the gateway over https, so we opened the portin both ways.Now everything runs fine but the gateway still tries tocommunicate with ...

Hi all,I created my own login module (like the existing Membership module) whichextends the Login class. It works just fine, and can create user profilesand allow people to log in. When I log into the admin console and try tobring up the user profile to edit the attributes for this module ...

When retrieving files from a location, files are not returned in about onefile in ten i.e. https://www.domain1.com/ http://www.domain2.com/file.html the page isnot found and then the file refuses to display until a refresh is completed. This happens intermittently, across different ...

Manage Domains<domain>ApplicationsExternal LDAP ConfigurationExternal LDAP server name: <FQDN of external LDAP>.DN to start search: ou=People,o=abc.comDN for root user bind: cn=Directory ManagerPassword for root user bind: <password for above>Scope for the userId search: ...