Posted by "Mark Rees" on 10/20/59 11:24

> Hello
>
> I am using PHP v5 to write an intranet. The site is hosted on a windows
2000
> server running Apache. I want to incorporate some form of Windows
> authentication to allow or deny access to given resources based on
usernames
> and group membership.
>
> I am trying to accomplish this using LDAP. I am able to connect and bind
to
> our Active Directory server (also Windows 2000) from PHP, but when I want
to
> perform a search, I need to know what the base record is. This is in the
> format o=my company, c=the country it is in.
>
> This is where the problem lies. How do I find out this information? Is
there
> some facility in Active Directory that allows me to see what the actual
> name-values are for all the records (like sn=rees)?
>

I found a useful utility to solve this problem called CSVDE built into
Windows 2000 and 2003. More information is available here
http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/Logon/LDAP_attributes_active_directory.
htm

I also found this page useful

http://www.developer.com/lang/php/article.php/3100951



> The line of code causing the problem is this: $ds is a bound connection to
> the LDAP server
> $sr=ldap_search($ds, "o=company name, c=uk", "sn=g*");
>
> It returns "Operations error"
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Mark
>
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