Connection to LDAP server fails with error code 32 due to space char in BaseDN

2011-07-05 15:57:54,384 QuartzWorker-1 ERROR ServiceRunner     [atlassian.crowd.directory.DbCachingDirectoryPoller] Error occurred while refreshing the cache for directory [ 10002 ].
com.atlassian.crowd.exception.OperationFailedException: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: com.atlassian.crowd.exception.OperationFailedException: org.springframework.ldap.NameNotFoundException: [LDAP: error code 32 - 0000208D: NameErr: DSID-031001E4, problem 2001 (NO_OBJECT), data 0, best match of:
	'DC=win2k8,DC=local'
]; nested exception is javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: [LDAP: error code 32 - 0000208D: NameErr: DSID-031001E4, problem 2001 (NO_OBJECT), data 0, best match of:
	'DC=win2k8,DC=local'
]; remaining name 'ou=users, DC=win2k8,DC=local'
	at com.atlassian.crowd.directory.ldap.cache.UsnChangedCacheRefresher.synchroniseAllUsers(UsnChangedCacheRefresher.java:252)
	at com.atlassian.crowd.directory.ldap.cache.AbstractCacheRefresher.synchroniseAll(AbstractCacheRefresher.java:33)
...
Caused by: javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: [LDAP: error code 32 - 0000208D: NameErr: DSID-031001E4, problem 2001 (NO_OBJECT), data 0, best match of:
	'DC=win2k8,DC=local'
]; remaining name 'ou=users, DC=win2k8,DC=local'
	at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.mapErrorCode(LdapCtx.java:3066)
	at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.processReturnCode(LdapCtx.java:2987)
	at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.processReturnCode(LdapCtx.java:2794)
	at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.searchAux(LdapCtx.java:1826)