I am trying to get free radius to authenticate users with my Novell server. I know that I am close, but I don't quite have it. I can see that my access points are sending MAC address to the radius server as the user name, that MAC is then authenticated through my users file and passed to Novell. the Mac sent to Novell as the uid and is then accepted or rejected. I know this, because I created a user in Novell with my MAC as the user name and the user was authenticated successfully. I then changed the ldap filter to read: filter = "(radiusCheckItem=%{Stripped-User-Name:-%{User-Name}})" and then I placed my MAC address in the radusCheckItem field in Novell for my Novell record. I can not get authenticated this way, I receive the following error: rlm_ldap: performing search in o=dist-155, with filter (radiusCheckItem=0016cb-b64f93) rlm_ldap: object not found or got ambiguous search result rlm_ldap: search failed I clearly have something missing, or I am confused about something. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Brad Lachel Community High School District #155 1 S Virginia Rd Crystal Lake, IL 60014 815-455-8500 x 28 ----------------------------- All e-mail to and from this address is subject to the Acceptable Use Policies of Community High School District #155. All e-mail may be monitored and/or disclosed to third parties. Any views or opinions presented in an e-mail are solely those of the author and may not represent those of Community High School District #155. Community High School District #155 http://www.d155.org