LDAP questions...

[Ross1811]

Got a quick question,

How to you find what server is the LDAP server?? Is that the one with the Domain Controller? If not where does it usually default to or do I have to install it? For example

root = "o=Monash University,c=AU";
servername = "directory.monash.edu.au";


What is the "o" and "c" exactly mean? The server name is the domain controller?

Thanks,
Ross

 

[jrjuiliano]

o" would be your organization and "c" in this case looks like country (AU).

Depending on your LDAP setup it may or may not be a domain controller. For instance I'm working on an openLDAP setup with Linux on my Windows 2000 network so the server is NOT the domain controller.

You can probably find out if your server is the domain controller by doing a tracert on directory.monash.edu.au and matching it with your domain controller ip as well.

HTH

 

[LloydSev]

I would say that I highly do not believe that directory.monash.edu.au is the DC, as it is a public address.. so if it IS a DC, that would be one of the worst security protocols I have seen.

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