<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Raja,<div><br></div><div>You've just got the SP's entityID entered where the IdP's entityID should be in the SSO element in shibboleth2.xml. If you change that to the IdP's entityID (add /idp/ in between .net and /shibboleth) then you should succeed, or at the very least get a new error.</div><div><br></div><div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><SSO entityID="<a href="https://MYPC.myinc.mycompany.net/shibboleth">https://MYPC.myinc.mycompany.net/idp/shibboleth</a>">SAML2</SSO></div></div><div><br></div><div>Take care,</div><div>Nate.</div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 17, 2011, at 1:11 , Raja Rao Dharanipragada wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div><b>Error:</b></div><div><b>Unable to locate metadata for identity provider (<a href="https://MYPC.myinc.mycompany.net/shibboleth">https://MYPC.myinc.mycompany.net/shibboleth</a>)</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>Metadafiles</b></div><div>C:\auth\shibboleth-idp\metadata\idp-metadata.xml</div><div><EntityDescriptor xmlns="<a href="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:metadata">urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:metadata</a>" xmlns:ds="<a href="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#">http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#</a>" xmlns:shibmd="<a href="urn:mace:shibboleth:metadata:1.0">urn:mace:shibboleth:metadata:1.0</a>" xmlns:xsi="<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance</a>" entityID="<a href="https://MYPC.myinc.mycompany.net/idp/shibboleth">https://MYPC.myinc.mycompany.net/idp/shibboleth</a>"></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>