Re: Accessing ActiveDirectory through LDAP with .NET

From: Tim Mavers (webview_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/29/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 12:33:10 -0600

"Paul Clement" <UseAdddressAtEndofMessage@swspectrum.com> wrote in message
news:ruv2t0hjl5rjqf3kfsorr1mtie7dhg285a@4ax.com...
> Well I have to scratch my head a bit about this scenario. It's rather
> difficult
> to authenticate against a domain that you don't have access to. ;-)

I guess a better to put it this is there a way I can authenticate against an
ActiveDirectory using LDAP via LDAP's credentials vs using Microsoft's
credentials.

For example, if I am running some LDAP server under Linux and I want to
authenticate against it, I would need to include some sort of credentials
(ones that have nothing to do with ActiveDirectory).

Since ActiveDirectory supports LDAP, can this be done under a Windows
environment? Since in other words, what would have to happen to allow me to
authenticate against ACtiveDirectory? I would have to open up all these
ports and then expose my domain publicly to the Internet (vs. just having an
LDAP interface exposed)?

Thanks,

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