Accessing LDAP eDirectory 8.8 through .Net 1

[AndyH1]

I need to access a Novell eDirectory 8.8 through .net (C#) using asp.net 3.5. I haven't accessed an LDAP database before but know that theres issues with non-Microsoft ones (at least there used to be). I was wondering if someone could point me to code to do this, thats the best method of doing it nowdays (ones I found on the net seem old). The LDAP requires a username and password and I simply want to go to that users details and check a field called isMember which is a flag giving their level 0,1,2.

The login (bind) is in the form
cn=USERNAME,ou=users,o=mycompany
which I gather is pretty standard

Hope someone can help
Thanks
Andy

 

[jmeckley]

you can try the Directory Services binaries. You will need to reference this assembly in you project
Project > Add Reference > .Net > System.DirectoryServices.dll.

All the MS documentation talks about Active Directory. but AD is just an LDAP database. I would assume you can query Novell eDirectory 8.8 through DirectoryServices the same way you can query Active Directory.

Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.

faq855-7190
faq732-7259

 

[AndyH1]

Jason,

Thanks for the help. Sorry for not replying sooner, but unfortunately haven't had access to tektips for a few days as the site I was working on didn't allow external access.

Unfortunately I can't check out if it can talk to eDirectory as I haven't got access to the domain yet, but will try once this is done

Thanks again
Andy

 

[jshurst]

Check out the first two articles here. It's an ASP.NET forum but might help you out anyway:

http://tek-tips.com/faq.cfm?pid=855