I just installed SP3 on a new machine and for some reason ldap authentication is failing. I have installed SP3 on 2 other machines recently using almost the same configuration. When I look in the logs the information seems correct and I know that the user is there, but for some reason it wont ...

iPlanet portal gateway throws HTMLTranslator caught UnsupportedEncoding exception when translating java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException: ibm-1047, exception. This happens when one of the web server that I try to access sends 401 Basic Authentication response. The web server is IBM HTTP ...

I have a page that i want to be able to be viewed through the gateway. This page incorporates mouse overs. I have the gateway rewriting the whole page perfectly except for these rollovers. here is an example of one of them: a href="https://<gateway_name>/<server_name>/default.htm" ...

I've tried going to the admin console to disable rewrite for the href attributes and src attributes for images, but it didn't work. Does anybody know a good fix for this problem?

Every 5 sec its generating the following Gateway error in iwtGateway debug file. I am using SP2HP3HP4 with gateway and portal server in different machines. Even though its generating this error all the functionlaties are working fine. I tried by modifying the gateway parameters. But it is not ...

We have iPS SP2HP4 with gateway and server in different machines. Always its increasing the CLOSE_WAIT parameter in gateway and server. Whenever it reaches certain value(app.30 to 40 in server and 15 in gateway) the gateway and server are not responsing properly and after some time portal ...

In the java console I receive following error :Netlet Starting (16)BrowserType exception no privileges:netscape.security.ForbiddenTargetException: access to target deniednetscape.security.ForbiddenTargetException: access to target deniedat netscape/security/PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege ...

Most authentication modules have a attribute named "<authentication module> user aliases".I can't find anything about that in the documentation.We have a Portal domain with LDAP and SecurID authentication, but the UserID's in each authentication module are different.We wish to create a ...

We have an application that uses RMI with iPlanet WebServer. We are trying to move the application to thePortal Server but couldn't get the RMI to work. I'm wondering if someone can point out what needs to be done. Our developmental system is Ultra 10 /Solaris 8.All components of the Portal ...

I have a Provider that reads data from a source (database, large flat file, etc). If I run a similar app outside of the portal it appears to work correctly. However, inside the portal the application/provider returns an error and throws an InterruptedIOException. If I put some additional ...

I am using iPortal 3.0 SP3a

Has anyone had any luck in configuring the portal to accept PDCs and SmartCards? Could you describe your configuration if you were successful.-G

I'm installing SP3 on Solaris 7. Getting 'libplc3.so: open failed: no such file' during install of the SUNWwtws (NES) package. I searched for libplc3.so and did not find it anywhere on my server... Where does this file come from? I am attempting a straight-forward install at this point. ...

I have created a new provider that extends from the ProfileProviderAdapter. The new provider compiles. I created the xml file to describe the attributes and privs for this new provider. I run "ipsadmin -chkxml filename" and the command runs properly. I next run "ipsadmin -import filename" and ...

The Compass Server shows for e. g. that he has 8000 Documents in one Cat. But if you browse the results site by site, only 500 are displayed! Can i change this?

Is it possible to set two domains, exemple my.ibm.comand another one called my.sites.org this must run on the same server, could be two differents instance but I would prefer only on instance

We want to use the iPlanet portal to connect to a host using Host on Demand from IBM, the admin port for HOD is 8999

I want the parameters of a function to be rewritten by the gateway. The number of arguments of teh function is not fixed and varies acroos different HTMLs. Currently, I have made an entry with 30 arguments as 25 is the maximum it has at present. Is this the only way? Is there no way to just ...

I need to access a global attribute (for example Database Connection String)from some of my Channels. Is there some way I can set this in the Profiling Service (before I even start up IPS) and use/read it from all my applications. I tried something like:creating XML file (iwtMyDBInfo.xml) with ...

This value is showing up in a number of our entries. Any thoughts as to what it means?

We would like for the user to be able to clone an existing component and then modify that clone. For example:We have component A that allows an end user to customize it's functionality. We would like to be able to allow the end user to create n number of A component clones without the admins ...

I am trying to create a SSO effect between the portal server and the messaging server. When the user logs into the portals desktop i would like to also log them into the messaging server. Does anyone know how do accomplish this?Thanks

We have created a Content Provider for a channel using the Quotations provider sample given by iPlanet. But when we try to load the portal the channel is displayed but our new content is not available. The channel displays "Generic Channel Display". Can anyone knows how to display the result of ...

Is it possible, acceptable, and/or safe to create Domain level attributes? I want to have an sttribute that only applies to user of a particular domain. The attribute applies to all users of the domain. I may hace another domain that has the same attribute, but with a different value. And, I ...

I'm trying to create a netlet rule that will allow me do download an applet from server 1, download all the session configuration from server 1 thrue the port 8999, then when all th session config is downloaded it will start a telnet connection to server 2 thrue port 23.server 1 ip is ...

I have managed to call a Citrix managed application from the portal via netlet (via InitialProgram within citrix_start.html) - thankyou William Geurts.How do I use the Portal's single sign-on functionality to pass the username and password through to Citrix via netlet?

We have setup a portal with 4 domains. We are currently using one gateway. 2 domains are configured for securID authentication. We'd like to setup the other two domains for authentication using browser certificates. If possible followed by LDAP auth. I have the following questions:A. We will ...

does anyone know what's portal server look and feel limitations? Eg : what components that cannot be changed? Thanks a lot.:)

anyone out there knows what is the right way to deply portal server into production environment instead of manually copying all the folders and run the nessarily commands? Is there a better way to deploy portal server? Any best practices that i should follow for deploying portal server? ...

Hello all!I appear to have successfully installed Portal Collaboration Pack onto iPS 3.0 SP3a. However, when I login and attempt to launch iim, the applet fails to run. When I try launching via Java WebStart, I am prompted to download a file, and then nothing happens. When I launch via Java ...

Can some detail the steps I need to take to install a Porvider in the portal if I only have the ipsadmin command (i.e. no Admin Console). If for example, I want to install the QuotationProvider, what would be the ipsadmin commands I would need to issue.If this is somewhere in some ...

Recently i am doing some R&D work on portal server. Whenever the user logs in to portal server, it will bypass the authentication menus and login as anonymous user because i have set in the admin console to disable all the authentication methods except anonymous login. In order for the user ...

How to achieve profile server synchronization if i have 2 machines, each machine is installed server, gateway and profile components.Which means these 2 machines are having the same components. The reason profile server is installed in both of these machines is to avoid if one of the machine ...

I'm running iPortal 3.0SP3a on Solaris 8 and havingproblem getting Netfile and Netlet applicationsto work with mac clients. The mac clients are runningIE 5.1 under OS/X and also under OS9. The mac user can login and get to the desktop page but Netfile doesn't work and none of the Netlet rules ...

My user is getting the following message from the netlet:"Netlet was unable to determine your browser proxy settings. If your browser preferences are set to use automatic proxy configurations, set the security proxy in your browser proxy configuration. Restart your browser, see your network ...

Could anyone please explain what the format for using an ldap server for address lookups in Netmail. ie: servername:port/searchbase or ldap://servername:port/searchbase. I have tried a few but can't seem to get it to work. Everytime I try to add a server to this list, the Java Netmail will not ...

I am trying to authenticate applications on Oracles OAS 4.0.8.2 server via the iPlanet portal by using the HTTP/XML, implemented in PL/SQL. I am wondering if anyone has implemented the HTTP portion of this before (in any language). The documentation says to post the XML block to the naming URL ...

I have a domain with three roles. These roles correspond to subsidiaries of our company, each with their own NT Auth Server. Shouldn't I be able to put in the NT information at the role level and not in the code for the iwtLoginChannel or on the domain Auth pages?What happens is I cannot ...

Hii Have 2 servers IPS server and NT server, and when i want to connect application web (ActiveX) access in port 8080, who invite us to authentifies the user and Password, and that located in NT server via IIS, tal , then nothing is do , the generic page of the portal is display, but when i ...

Hi.How Can the user change his password et set another in IPS.

I have installed iPlanet Instant Messaging Server as part of the iPlanet Portal Server (3.0 SP3).It has inserted the links into the Portal Server Desktop.Clicking on the Java plug-in or Java Web Start starts up the Netlet window but I get the an error box with the following msg:Login Failed - ...

Is it possible for portal server to let end users to customize theme besides changing the layout, content, etc (the portal server default features)? If possible, how to implement it? Anyone have any idea?

To enable my portal to have anonymous login and skip the login menu, from the admin console, i've added "Membership" and "Ldap" under the interactive mode section. This is to allow Ldap or Membership authentication methods enabled at the anonymous page. I tried to use the default login channel ...

We are currently evaluating the mobile access pack for iPlanet Portal Server.Does anyone know what encryption or security this supports through the secure gateway.I have been using a Deckit emulator to access content on the portal server but have not been able to go through the secure gateway. ...

"I have installed iPlanet Instant Messaging Server as part of the iPlanet Portal Server (3.0 SP3).It has inserted the links into the Portal Server Desktop.Clicking on the Java plug-in or Java Web Start starts up the Netlet window but I get the an error box with the following msg:Login Failed - ...

Single Server mode works fine through the gateway, multi server mode fails