Question

I am working now with the Apache Directory Server. I am a freshman in LDAP.
After few paragraphs of reading about it I noticed that I need my own tree to particular case that I want to design. For know, let’s say I have some domain bubble.com. I want to create dc object for it dc=buble, dc=com. When I try to do so using Apache Directory Studio I get the following error:

Error while creating entry
 - [LDAP: error code 32 - NO_SUCH_OBJECT: failed for     Add Request 
  javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: [LDAP: error code 32 - NO_SUCH_OBJECT: failed for         Add Request :
ClientEntry
    dn: dc=bubble+dc=com
    objectClass: dcObject
    objectClass: top
    dc: bubble
    dc: com
: ERR_268 Cannot find a partition for dc=bubble+dc=com]; remaining name 'dc=bubble+dc=com'
    at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.mapErrorCode(LdapCtx.java:3112)
    at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.processReturnCode(LdapCtx.java:3033)
    at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.processReturnCode(LdapCtx.java:2840)
    at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.c_createSubcontext(LdapCtx.java:811)
    at com.sun.jndi.toolkit.ctx.ComponentDirContext.p_createSubcontext(ComponentDirContext.java:337)
    at com.sun.jndi.toolkit.ctx.PartialCompositeDirContext.createSubcontext(PartialCompositeDirContext.java:266)
    at org.apache.directory.studio.connection.core.io.jndi.JNDIConnectionWrapper$4.run(JNDIConnectionWrapper.java:658)
    at org.apache.directory.studio.connection.core.io.jndi.JNDIConnectionWrapper.runAndMonitor(JNDIConnectionWrapper.java:1272)
    at org.apache.directory.studio.connection.core.io.jndi.JNDIConnectionWrapper.checkConnectionAndRunAndMonitor(JNDIConnectionWrapper.java:1203)
    at org.apache.directory.studio.connection.core.io.jndi.JNDIConnectionWrapper.createEntry(JNDIConnectionWrapper.java:704)
    at org.apache.directory.studio.ldapbrowser.core.jobs.CreateEntryRunnable.createEntry(CreateEntryRunnable.java:226)
    at org.apache.directory.studio.ldapbrowser.core.jobs.CreateEntryRunnable.run(CreateEntryRunnable.java:117)
    at org.apache.directory.studio.connection.ui.RunnableContextRunner$1.run(RunnableContextRunner.java:113)
    at org.eclipse.jface.operation.ModalContext$ModalContextThread.run(ModalContext.java:121)

  [LDAP: error code 32 - NO_SUCH_OBJECT: failed for     Add Request :
ClientEntry
    dn: dc=bubble+dc=com
    objectClass: dcObject
    objectClass: top
    dc: bubble
    dc: com
: ERR_268 Cannot find a partition for dc=bubble+dc=com]

To be honest, I don’t really understand what is going on. What is the idea of partitions?
Is it possible to create own dc in such way? Or maybe do I have to put everything into ou=schema or ou=system?
What is the purpose of ou=schema and ou=system, present in ADS by default?

Answer 1

dc=bubble+dc=com is a distinguished name with a multi-valued relative distinguished name, and no parent. The DIT must have a suffix or namingContext hosted by a backend and then you could add the entry as a subordinate to that suffix or namingContext, for example, dc=bubble+dc=com,o=my-suffix.