Hi all,I can set up to connect to windows machine. But when I connect to solaris machine, I always got message " get Machine Type". Does anyone know what's meaning?Thanx.Sean

Hi,I upgraded to SP3a, and this problem went away. Now I've installed HP2on top of it, and the bug seems to be reintroduced! Anyone else noticethis?From the SP3 Release notes:4350031 ipsadmin -import converts new attributes inpreviously existing components to lowercase and reports all ...

Has anyone successfully installed and used the Graphon Netlet from theThirdParty cd? When I run the pkgadd, the software installs, but thepostinstall script reports:devfsadm: driver failed to attach: goglobalWarning: Driver (goglobal) successfully added to system but failed toattach Thanks,Sam ...

HiWould appreciate if someone can answer these questions (or point toresources on the web):1) Has anyone implemented single sign on with iPlanet?2) Has anyone used the Session API to implement single sign on?3) Has anyone implemented a single sign on solution across multiple ...

After I setup the background color to blue or some other color, the background of Tab is changed. But there is still some white area can't be changed. Does anyone know how to solve this problem? Thanks.Sean

Hello,I am trying to retrieve session and profile information from a non-iPSserver.When I follow the steps as described in Article ID: 4759 of the iPlanetKnowledge Baseand I try to retrieve the iPlanet session information using a .jsp filethe following error is shown in the error log of the ...

Hello,we're confused about the handling of all the directories in "/etc/opt/desktop".Can anyone explain the ordering in which the template-files or template-directories are used? We have directories"default","default_de","pilotportal" and"pilotportal_de".We can't find out when which template ...

I once can login as anonymouse user and in the User information Provider channel there is a login fields to allow you enter user/passwd. But now I cann't get this. Does any one know how to do that?Thanks.Sean

I have installed the Portal Server. Then I follow the instructionslisted in the HelloServlet.java file that is in the/files/iPlanet/SUNWips/sample/apidirectory. Of course, in this directory I only have HelloServlet.xmlso I renamed it to iwtHelloServlet.xml. Then I do the ...

I am trying to authenticate using LDAP. I have added a person to the LDAPschema under the root created during installation. In the Portal Server'sAdmin, I am using the inherited values for the domain's LDAP configuration.Needless to say, it isn't authenticating at all.Do the base values for ...

I am fairly new to iPlanet Portal Server 3.0 (have used Tomcat and Resinbefore)I was wondering where should I place a war file with this server to makeit work(i.e. a war file placed in tomcat_install_dir/webapps will be extractedand run with tomcat)Is there a similar location for iPlanet Portal ...

What is the process for adding an attribute to a user's profile?For instance, what steps are needed to add the attribute "height" to auser's profile.

Hi,in the frontend zone we setup a portal gateway ( http://mysite)in the backend we've setup some apps/webservers that need to be served.so normally we have http://mysite/ http://myapps servers/How do i limit to which 'myapps server' a gateway can connect?Also i've noticed that it is not the ...

Does anyone have a recommended network, hardware and software configuration guide for a Portal installation running with multiple gateways load balanced (ie one URL) that talk to multiple servers?

Hi,I am wondering how to redirect to a custom error page from a custom loginauthentication module. Normally you are expected to throw a LoginExceptionand portal handles the display of default Authentication failed page.Instead I want to redirect the user to different page(s) based on ...

Hi,HW: Sun Solaris 2.8I would really appreciate it you can cc: me if you can shed any lightas to whats going wrong, and what I should do to fix the followingproblem.Portal server doesn't allow one to access /console (or /login) - 0 length document is returned.We find the following in the ...

We can use a single Citrix Terminal Server over Netlet without a problem.Has anyone experience using a Terminal Server Farm instead of a single server?What is the best approach?- DNS round robin?- Citrix configuration, i.e. load balancing?- Netlet configuration?- other?Thanks, Juergen, Thomas ...

I need help installing japanese locales for portal SP2 and SP3. I havefound some documentation and have done the pkgadd but i have yet to beable to get it to work properly.any ideas

What are the steps for adding attributes to the Profile? If you add it tothe LDAP server is it automatically party of the profile or are there othersteps?I haven't seen any documentation on this...HELP!

Hello Everyone. I was wondering if someone could help me with thisproblem. Somehow, the Netlet stopped working a while back. It now onlyshows "Content not available" in the channel window, no longer loads theapplet and the following appears in the Netlet debug file:11/20/01 9:30:17 AM ...

Hello ,We have been looking at Iplanet Portal Server for a while and now it hasoccured discussions about Nfuse .How does Nfuse relate to IPS ? Is it a competitor or a complement ? Howdo you compare this products ?I saw a thread earlier in this newsgroup conecerning an issue whenrunning Nfuse on ...

I have installed IPlanet Portal Server 3 (SP3) as an Open Portal. I createdtwo domains. I am unable to navigate to the domains. I can get to the Loginconsole using: http://myIPSHost:port/consolebut, I cannot get to the domains. I am trying to use URL http://myIPSHost:port/myDomain1 ...

I have installed IPS3SP3 (as Open Portal) and I have set up a domain. I cannot seem to access the domain. I am using http://ipshost:port/myDomain. Any ideas why? I get "the requested object does not exist on the server...." However, http://ipshost:port/console works fine.

In the admin console there are 2 values that can be set -- max idle time and max session time. Does this mean that even if the user is not idle, as soon as they exceed the session time they will be kicked out of the system? If so, is there any way of resetting the max session time counter each ...

I am loading/instlling the HelloServlet sample app. I am at the step where Iam to do aipsadmin -import iwtHelloServlet.xml. There is no file namediwtHelloServlet.xml, only HelloServlet.xml, so I guess i need to copy thisfile to iwtHelloServlet.xml?Prior to doing this I ran ipsadmin -import ...

failure ( 8526): Internal error: exception thrown from the servlet servicefunction (uri=/Unix2/portal/testnfuse.jsp): javax.servlet.ServletException: <portal server>,stack: javax.servlet.ServletException:<portal server>at java.lang.Throwable.fillInStackTrace(Native Method)at ...

Hi all,I can get session object from cookie that Portal server forward. But once I want to get this session object in second servlet, I got "Can't find bundle for base name iwtNaming, locale en_US". But the first servlet work fine. Why?Thanks.Sean ...

We have roles to perform restricted operations, i.e.:/Admin/DothisAdmin.htmlThis is setup as URLScraper for specific role. Problem is if anyone knowsthe URL - they can access this operation, without being in correct role.Is there an additional configuration to stop this?Any help appreciated. ...

We have roles to perform restricted operations, i.e.:/Admin/DothisAdmin.htmlThis is setup as URLScraper for specific role. Problem is if anyone knowsthe URL - they can access this operation, without being in correct role.Is there an additional configuration to stop this?Any help appreciated. ...

Hi,I'm working my way thru the Administration Guide and I'm looking at the URLAccess Policy. I added a URL to allow ( http://www.yahoo.com) and a URL todeny ( http://www.sportsline.com) for my user fooUser in MyDomain_1. I thenlogin the IP Portal as fooUser.What form of the URL is the Bookmarks ...

Hi,I noticed the iwtUser-IMAPPassword is encrypted, but still readable from theportal server. Also the iwtUser-WWW-Authorization uses an encryptedpassword.I assume the portal server contains some crypt/decrypt functions to createthese encrypte passwords?Since I also want to store some passwords ...

Hello,I've recently installed an evaluation copy of Portal Server, and am justtrying to get the feel of how things work. Currently however, I keeplooking to try things from the documentation, only to find that there isno link where the documentation tells me to click one.For example, I have an ...

Hello,I have two questions:1. Is it possible to change the default percentage widths for thin andthick channels? Default it looks like thin is set to 30% and thick is70%. If so where is the configuration file or ldap attribute that setsthese values?2. Is it possible to configure the server such ...

I want my portal's content to be publically accessable, to allow anonymous users to browse the content without the ability to modify layouts, content, etc. But I can't figure out how to make the portal completely skip the login menu page. If I enable any modules besides the Anonymous module, ...

Hi,I can't get NT authentication to work in IPS3.0SP3A, gets "authentication failed" everytime. The NT server accepts and logs the login as successful. Tried multiple NT 4 and Win2k servers with no luck. The same setup worked perfectly in 3.0 w/o SP.From the logs (passwords and usernames are ...

I am reading trying to set up LDAP thru the iPS. In the Administrator's Guide it indicates:LDAP authentication server myserver.eng DN to start search cn=Eng,ou=Engineering,o=sun.com scope for the userId search ONELEVEL What would go in LDAP authentication server? If my iPS is ...

Anyone installed the Mobile Access Pack? I am trying to and get an errorduring install. It is looking for patch # 111867-01. I cannot find thispatch at all. Neither iPlanet nor Sun list one by that # that can see.ThanksRyan

Sorry for the multiple posting but i dropped this in the middle ofanother thread. When opening up the administrative console( http://localhost:8080/console?func=frameset) and looking at thesourceit shows the following:<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>iPlanet Portal Server 3.0 Administration ...

I want to be able to have my user log onto the portal and then capture theuserid/password and use it to gain access into another application. Forexample I inside my Portal I'm supplying a Channel to that queries a DBMSfor some basic information user specific information and displays it to ...

I seek how well to use the properties of iwtUser-URLPrivList with ipsadminvia a xml file.file.xml<iwt:Att name="iwtUser-URLPrivList"userConfigurable="true" ><Alst></Alst><Dlst> http://portal.webserver.com:8080/web/*</Dlst></iwt:Att>After import../ipsadmin ...

I have IPlanet PS and Netscape Directory Server running on the same machine. I read the Admin Guide section on LDAP Authentication setup and I think I may be setting this up correctly, but I'm not positive.I have it pointed at what I have one of my Doamins pointing to my LDAP server and have ...

I seek how to make secure a page on the portal server.This url http://my.portal.com/admintools/index.html is only foradministration userthis url http://my.portal.com/tutors/index.html is only for my teachersI do not know how to make safe the urls. Either via property of iplanetportal or via the ...

I wrote a custom Authentication module using the Developer's Documentation as a guideline. It actually works, so Hooray for me. Anyway, I put some System.out.println() statements in my code, but I cannot seem to find where my System.out.println's are being printed to. Any ideas? ...

The latest Sun JRE plugin is out (v 1.3.1.01) that supports XP/IE6 (andearlier) and can be configured to "take over" the old Microsoft VM for Java.It appears that there is something hardcoded into the Netlet that forces itto use the MS VM under IE, despite configuring the Sun Java VM to be ...

I'm having a problem running the "ipsadmin -import filename.xml".Here's the error message: > bash-2.03$ ipsadmin -import xml/MiiNewsProvider.xml> Profile create failed. More info:error result>Any ideas? Any place to look for more information.BTW, the portal server is running and I ...

I am new to Portal Server, but not new to Compass Server. My understanding of the Portal Server is that the Compass Server comes with it as a separate install package called SUNWipcs. However, I cannot find that package. Is Compass included? If so, where? How is it installed? Thanks.

I'm new to iPlanet Portal Server. I have read through the Admin and Developer Documents. I have had some minor success getting some things working. But, I'm struggling with some other things:1) I have found nothing in the Portal Server doumentation that talks about what the URL Scraper is.2) ...