diff --git a/apps/user_ldap/templates/settings.php b/apps/user_ldap/templates/settings.php
index 8a879fa2466e638ed2edf4385b3cbafef8306d08..5f25570e229d6dc87b499b542234a5a0376598af 100644
--- a/apps/user_ldap/templates/settings.php
+++ b/apps/user_ldap/templates/settings.php
@@ -5,10 +5,11 @@
 		<label for="ldap_port"><?php echo $l->t('Port');?></label><input type="text" id="ldap_port" name="ldap_port" value="<?php echo $_['ldap_port']; ?>" /></p>
 		<p><label for="ldap_dn"><?php echo $l->t('Name');?></label><input type="text" id="ldap_dn" name="ldap_dn" value="<?php echo $_['ldap_dn']; ?>" />
 		<label for="ldap_password"><?php echo $l->t('Password');?></label><input type="password" id="ldap_password" name="ldap_password" value="<?php echo $_['ldap_password']; ?>" />
-		<?php echo $l->t('Leave both empty for anonymous bind for search, then bind with users credentials.');?></p>
+		<small><?php echo $l->t('Leave both empty for anonymous bind for search, then bind with users credentials.');?></small></p>
 		<p><label for="ldap_base"><?php echo $l->t('Base');?></label><input type="text" id="ldap_base" name="ldap_base" value="<?php echo $_['ldap_base']; ?>" />
-		<label for="ldap_filter"><?php echo $l->t('Filter (use %uid placeholder)');?></label><input type="text" id="ldap_filter" name="ldap_filter" value="<?php echo $_['ldap_filter']; ?>" /></p>
-		<p><label for="ldap_display_name"><?php echo $l->t('Display Name Field');?></label><input type="text" id="ldap_display_name" name="ldap_display_name" value="<?php echo $_['ldap_display_name']; ?>" /></p>
+		<label for="ldap_filter"><?php echo $l->t('Filter (use %%uid placeholder)');?></label><input type="text" id="ldap_filter" name="ldap_filter" value="<?php echo $_['ldap_filter']; ?>" /></p>
+		<p><label for="ldap_display_name"><?php echo $l->t('Display Name Field');?></label><input type="text" id="ldap_display_name" name="ldap_display_name" value="<?php echo $_['ldap_display_name']; ?>" />
+		<small><?php echo $l->t('Currently the display name field needs to be the same you matched %%uid against in the filter above, because ownCloud doesn\'t distinguish between user id and user name.');?></small></p>
 		<p><input type="checkbox" id="ldap_tls" name="ldap_tls" value="1"<?php if ($_['ldap_tls']) echo ' checked'; ?>><label for="ldap_tls"><?php echo $l->t('Use TLS');?></label></p>
 		<input type="submit" value="Save" />
 	</fieldset>
diff --git a/apps/user_ldap/user_ldap.php b/apps/user_ldap/user_ldap.php
index 8557a7fde50c05dbe2f3dda884d270905b95022c..249def7a1c8c90c99de5172154f19bbb6582cf3d 100644
--- a/apps/user_ldap/user_ldap.php
+++ b/apps/user_ldap/user_ldap.php
@@ -143,8 +143,10 @@ class OC_USER_LDAP extends OC_User_Backend {
 		else {
 			$users = array();
 			foreach($entries as $row) {
-				if(isset($row[$this->ldap_display_name])) {
-					$users[] = $row[$this->ldap_display_name][0];
+				// TODO ldap_get_entries() seems to lower all keys => needs review
+				$ldap_display_name  = strtolower($this->ldap_display_name);
+				if(isset($row[$ldap_display_name])) {
+					$users[] = $row[$ldap_display_name][0];
 				}
 			}
 			// TODO language specific sorting of user names