Is the SLES9 server up to date on patches? Is this an OES1 server?
Is eDirectory installed?
Craig Johnson
Novell Support Connection SysOp
Can you set up a different server for GW Messenger? (My experience
with it has been on NetWare).
I did find some old patch readme files that mention a problem with GW
Messenger extending schema on Linux, that the installation would stop
if there was a problem extending the schema. The patch was supposed to
fix it. This was an older GW Messenger patch (2.02). Are you using
2.04 GW Messenger software?
It sounds in general that you may have an LDAP issue. Can you check
various LDAP settings? Are you comfortable that LDAP is working at all on
the server?
I suggest checking the log files for some indication of a login or
startup failure with GW Messenger on your server.