Resolved! I am ashamed to say that I indeed was not following every step in the wiki article...I left out his crucial configuration piece: | <option> | <name>uidAttributeID</name> | <value>sAMAccountName</value> | </option> | I only discovered this after downloading the source and putting my own debug statements in there. Sorry for wasting your time! View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4072696#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...