Furtther 9.0.1 install errors: LDIFDE

add ADAMAdmin in your administrator group via ADSI Edit. It's under your Roles CN.

Currently in Roles | Administrators | Member, I have the local Administrator's pc group, the domain Lawson account, the pc local ADAMAdmin account, as well as the ADAM ADAMAdmin account
Am I not adding this in the correct location?

the problem is you do not have a DOMAIN\ADAMAdmin account as administrator in both your local computer and adam administrator groups. You can use the "lawson" account that has both rights. Or you can create a DOMAIN\ADAMAdmin account on your DC, then assign the account to both your local computer as administrator AND your ADAM administrator.

well I think you may be pointing me to something...since this is Win2008, there's no actual AdamAdminstrator's group.
I created a local lawson account, same password as the domain, added it to the local admin's group (which is listed in the Members or the Adam Administrator's properties) and tried running the command as Lawson. Still no luck.

When you run the ldife, it has to be a domain account. To make it easy, we will use your "lawson" DOMAIN (DOMAIN\lawson) account which you have been using for the LSF install.

1) The "lawson" domain account should be in the administrator group under "Computer Management" > "Local Users and Groups" > "Groups" > Administrators
2) The "lawson" domain account should be added as your ADLDS administrator also in ADSI Edit under "Your base DN" > CN=Roles > CN=Administrators > properties > member > "Add Windows Account", then browse for your lawson domain account and add it as your ADLDS administrator.

now run the ldife with your lawson domain account credential.

P.S.

When you run thru the lawson installer, under the "Configuring Resource Management" part where it asked for "Enter the DN of an LDAP administrative user" and "Enter the password for LDAP administrative user", make sure the account you specified is in ADLDS administrator and the password is valid.

You should be able to use Jxplorer connect to the base DN and create a CN and delete a CN just for testing.

Thanks, Jimmy.
It took a couple tries to get the command right but I finally got a success based on your email.

The command was run as follows:

ldifde -b lawson domain.com * -s server.domain.com -t 389 -i -f d:\lawson\gen\install\lawsec_inst.ldif -v