The Hard Parts#

Often the hard part of connecting to Microsoft Active Directory using LDAP is Determining the [FDN of the user|Determining the FDN] to login with.

If you know the samAccountName of the user you can find it using:

dsquery user -samid ad_lookup
"CN=ad_lookup,CN=Users,DC=orgcontainer,DC=example,DC=com"

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• Determining the FDN
• LDAP and Active Directory
• LDAPs and AD