Re: Sun Java System Directory Server Authentication

"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <skeet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:MPG.1feb102915c0f91498d6e8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Chan Ming Man <chanmmn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Forgive me to say that. I did not see why VS 2005 need to put in effort for
LDAP because I do not think someone will like to run their WinApp (Windows
Application) or WebApp (ASP.NET) in Solaris.

Just because you don't run the application itself on Solaris doesn't
mean you won't need to talk to a Solaris LDAP server.

Can you imagine if the web client facilities only allowed you to fetch
pages from IIS?

Jon,
This is Ok for simple HTML, all webservers will handle that, but you can't expect a Solaris "Webserver" to handle asp or asp.net requests.
The same analogy goes for LDAP, you can't expect it to handle authentication of Windows accounts, right? LDAP is not an authentication protocol and an LDAP server (just as an AD on Windows) is not required to "handle" all possible authentication type requests either, nor should you expect it to implement the AD schema.
That said, the System.DirectoryServices.Protocols namespace offers low-level access to the LDAP V3 protocol, so this is where the OP should start with.

Willy.


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