LDAP path

[sck10]

Hello,

I was given some code that was done in ColdFusion, and I am trying to figure
out how to map the LDAP path. Any help would be appreciated.

This is what I got from the Microsoft web site
// Path to you LDAP directory server.
string adPath = "LDAP://yourCompanyName.com/DC=yourCompanyName,DC=com";
LdapAuthentication adAuth = new LdapAuthentication(adPath);

This is the code snippet that I got fro ColdFusion
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<cfldap action="QUERY"
name="empquery_login"
attributes="employeenumber,roomnumber,sname"
start="ou=people, o=lucent.com"
filter="(employeenumber=#ssno#)"
scope="onelevel"
server="ldap-useast.train.com"
port="389">

 

[Peter Huang [MSFT]]

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[Joe Kaplan \(MVP - ADSI\)]

I'm not sure what "LdapAuthentication" is here, but if that is an MS sample,
there is a good chance that it is AD-specific and should not be used.

What are you trying to do here, authenticate a user to an LDAP directory or
just look up some attribute values from their user object in the LDAP store?

Given that the example below is a simple search, I'll assume the latter. In
that case, you would want to try to use the DirectorySearcher with something
like this:

//air code, may not compile
DirectoryEntry root = new
DirectoryEntry("LDAP://ldap-useast.train.com/ou=people, o=lucent.com", "",
"", AuthenticationTypes.None);
DirectorySearcher searcher = new DirectorySearcher(root);
searcher.SearchScope = SearchScope.OneLevel;
searcher.PropertiesToLoad.AddRange(new string[] {"employeenumber",
"roomnumber", "sname"});
searcher.Filter = String.Format("(employeenumber={0})", empNum); //you
provide that parameter...
SearchResult result = searcher.FindOne();
//then retrieve the values from the result.Properties collection

The trick here will be in providing the correct credentials and
authentication types to work with your directory. In the example above, I
provided a null user and password, but that might not be right. Using
AuthenticationTypes.Anonymous may also be correct.

The other thing to watch out for would be schema mapping issues. ADSI/S.DS
is notorious for struggling to parse the schema of third-party LDAP
directories, so if you get weird "cannot convert datatype" errors, that is
the problem. In that case, you might not be able to get this to work with
S.DS and might need to wait for .NET 2.0 and
System.DirectoryServices.Protocols.

HTH,

Joe K.