Hi, I want to use a LDAP connection import (not BDC) to import email adress from lotus notes to MOSS profiles. This is requires since email adress are not in our AD but in Notes database. What do I have to do with the provider name field ? Thanks, SylvainSylvain

Ok here is what you need to do. You need to create the connection prior to setting the field up in the user Profile and Properties. It is as follows Add an import connection to LDAP Open the administration page for the SSP, as follows: On the top link bar, click the Application Management tab. On the Application Management page, in the Office SharePoint Server Shared Services section, click Create or configure this farm's shared services. On the Manage this Farm's Shared Services page, there is a link to each SSP and links to the Web applications for each SSP. Click the link for the SSP that you want to open. You can also access the SSP by clicking the link to the Shared Services Administration home page in the Shared Services Administration section of Quick Launch. On the SSP home page, in the User Profiles and My Sites section, click User profiles and properties. On the User Profiles and Properties page, in the Profile and Import Settings section, click View import connections. On the View Import Connections page, click Create New Connection. On the Add Connection page, in the Connection Settings section, from the Type menu, click LDAP Directory. In the Connection name text box, type the name of the connection. In the Directory service server name text box, type the name of the server for the directory service. In the Port text box, type the number of the port to use to connect to the domain. To use SSL to help secure the connection, select the Use SSL-secured connection check box, and type a port number that is configured to use SSL in the Port text box. To minimize the performance impact on the domain controller, type a number of seconds in the Time out text box, and select Enable Server Side Incremental. In the Provider name text box, type the name of the provider for this connection. In the Username attribute text box, type the name of the attribute to import. Note: This attribute is the identification attribute for each entry in LDAP directory services, associated with a single user or account. By default, this is the uid attribute. In the Search Settings section, in the Search base text box, type the distinguished name of the directory node from which to import the users. If you do not know the distinguished name, click the Auto Fill Root Search Base button. In the User filter text box, you can add new query clauses to the default query to filter which user profiles are imported. Under Scope, select One level to import one level of user profiles, or Subtree to import all user profiles under the search base. To improve performance, you can type a maximum number of user profiles to import in the Page Size text box, and type a maximum number of seconds for the import in the Page time out text box. In the Authentication Information section, select Specify Account and type the account name and password that you want to use to import user profiles from this connection. Note: It is recommended that you specify an account, rather than relying on the default content access account. To use the default content access account, select Use Default Account. Click OK. Once the import connection is created you can select that connection

Thanks DavidLewis27, But what I need to know is in details the step 10 "In the Provider name text box, type the name of the provider for this connection". What provider ? why does SharePoint need a provider ? Thanks, SylvainSylvain

Just to let you know that this problem is now solve. I discover that this field (provider name) is somewhat not usefull ?? You can put anything there. For myself I entered LDAP and all it does is starting the account name with LDAP: in the profiles. If someone has a good explanation of why this field exist than please post it.Sylvain