JNDI with Active Directory PartialResultException

Question

I am basically walking the LDAP tree in Active Directory.

At each level I query for "(objectClass=*)". When I do this on the root eg "dc=example,dc=com" I get the exception below. This works fine on our other LDAP instances. For some reason only on our Active Directory server I get this exception. I also get the same exception when using JXplorer on our Active Directory server.

From reading around online I found people saying you should turn on following, not sure what that means... So on my controls object (javax.naming.directory.SearchControls) that I pass with the query I call searchControls.setDerefLinkFlag(true). I also have tried setting it to false with the same result. Any a suggestions on what else could cause this? Maybe how I could fix it?

Note: In this post I changed the baseDn from dc=<my company domain> to example for my companies privacy.

javax.naming.PartialResultException: Unprocessed Continuation Reference(s); remaining name 'dc=example,dc=com'
at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.processReturnCode(LdapCtx.java:2820)
at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.processReturnCode(LdapCtx.java:2794)
at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.searchAux(LdapCtx.java:1826)
at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.c_search(LdapCtx.java:1749)
at com.sun.jndi.toolkit.ctx.ComponentDirContext.p_search(ComponentDirContext.java:368)
at com.sun.jndi.toolkit.ctx.PartialCompositeDirContext.search(PartialCompositeDirContext.java:338)
at com.sun.jndi.toolkit.ctx.PartialCompositeDirContext.search(PartialCompositeDirContext.java:321)
at javax.naming.directory.InitialDirContext.search(InitialDirContext.java:248)
at com.motio.pi.gui.panels.useraccess.ldap.LDAPConnector.query(LDAPConnector.java:262)
at com.motio.pi.gui.selector.directory.CognosDirectoryBrowserController.expandCognosTreeNode(CognosDirectoryBrowserController.java:99)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at com.motio.pi.utils.PIThreadDelegate$1.run(PIThreadDelegate.java:54)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)

Answer 1

So when I was creating my naming context with the method:

javax.naming.ldap.InitialLdapContext.InitialLdapContext(
   Hashtable<?, ?> environment, Control[] connCtls)

In the argument environment there is a property with the name Context.REFERRAL and its value should be set to: follow. This was the setting that I needed.