LDAP Authentication Fails?

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 authenticate them. Anyone got any advice?

Here are the logs iwtAuthLdap:

LDAP initialize()

2/14/02 1:09:15 PM MST: Thread[Thread-68,5,main]

LDAP getting resource bundle

2/14/02 1:09:15 PM MST: Thread[Thread-68,5,main]

bindDN->

2/14/02 1:09:15 PM MST: Thread[Thread-68,5,main]

bindPasswd->

2/14/02 1:09:15 PM MST: Thread[Thread-68,5,main]

baseDN-> o=pegsnet.com

2/14/02 1:09:15 PM MST: Thread[Thread-68,5,main]

server-> ldap://ptlprod.pegsnet.com:389

2/14/02 1:09:15 PM MST: Thread[Thread-68,5,main]

searchFilter-> uid

2/14/02 1:09:15 PM MST: Thread[Thread-68,5,main]

ssl-> false

2/14/02 1:09:15 PM MST: Thread[Thread-68,5,main]

searchScope-> 2

2/14/02 1:09:15 PM MST: Thread[Thread-68,5,main]

-> ldap://ptlprod.pegsnet.com:389/o=pegsnet.com

2/14/02 1:09:15 PM MST: Thread[Thread-68,5,main]

SearchFilter: (uid=portal)

2/14/02 1:09:15 PM MST: Thread[Thread-68,5,main]

ERROR: userid does not exist: check baseDN, searchScope and search filter

[1415 byte] By [708870] at [2007-11-25 4:35:27]
# 1

Possible things to be tried...

1) Try doing a LDAP search from the browser to check if the user is reachable from the client like in the browser window type:

ldap://ptlprod.pegsnet.com:389/o=pegsnet.com?sub?uid=*

2) Cross check the entries in Console|Domain|Authentication|LDAP entries with Console|Domain|External_LDAP_Config.

3) Also it is worth checking the error and access log files in the External Directory Server.

708766 at 2007-6-29 2:47:38 > top of Java-index,Web & Directory Servers,Portal Servers...
# 2

I figured it out. Apparently w/ SP3 when you add a new user in the profile server it sets the users access to deny everyone from seeing that user. To fix it you have to go into the set access permissions for that user and create a new ACI. This will allow you to set the access to that user. Once I added this the portal could authenticate to that user.

708870 at 2007-6-29 2:47:38 > top of Java-index,Web & Directory Servers,Portal Servers...