The ASP.NET Active Directory Membership Provider does an authenticated bind to the Active Directory using a specified username, password, and “connection string”. The connection string is made up of the LDAP server’s name, and the fully-qualified path of the container object where the user specified is located. The connection string begins with the URI LDAP://. … Read more
CN = Common Name OU = Organizational Unit DC = Domain Component These are all parts of the X.500 Directory Specification, which defines nodes in a LDAP directory. You can also read up on LDAP data Interchange Format (LDIF), which is an alternate format. You read it from right to left, the right-most component is … Read more
Importing a whole library seems inefficient when all you need is essentially two lines of code…
memberOf (in AD) is stored as a list of distinguishedNames. Your filter needs to be something like: If you don’t yet have the distinguished name, you can search for it with: and return the attribute distinguishedName. Case may matter.
Active Directory is a database based system that provides authentication, directory, policy, and other services in a Windows environment LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is an application protocol for querying and modifying items in directory service providers like Active Directory, which supports a form of LDAP. Short answer: AD is a directory services database, and … Read more
I don’t think the hostname ldap.techvictus.local is actually addressable… (i.e. a hostname that can be resolved in an IP address). Try ldap://localhost