Re: Base Distinguished name

From: Jason Robarts [MSFT] (jasonrob_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/19/04 

Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 10:56:45 -0700

I'd expect the DN for xxx.xxx.com to be DC=xxx,DC=xxx,DC=com

So for microsoft.com the DN is dc=microsoft,dc=com.

Put a DC= in front of each component in the DNS name and commas to separate
them.

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/2000/server/reskit/en-us/default.mspx
has the online version of the Windows 2000 Server Resource Kit. 

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"kstahl" <ktsahl@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Can someone tell me how to extract the Base Distinguished Name
> from a domain? What I need is a simple VBScript or JScript that
> will extract this information by only knowing the name of the
> domain in the form of xxx.xxx.com.
>
> References to the Win2K Resource Kit are useless to me because in
> this particular case I don't have access to it and the domain
> administrator doesn't want to be bothered.
>
> What I am trying to do is set up Cognos Impromptu Web Reports. Do
> you LDAP authentication I need to know the base distinguished
> name. I have tried using several scripts that print out items
> from ADS, but I just can't determine out of everything that I am
> seeing what the base distinguished name would be.
>
> The information in the Cognos documentation is fairly useless
> because the authors apparently made the assumption that the whole
> world would adapt their naming scheme and that having done so
> their default settings would work everywhere. Obviously that is a
> false assumption, but they provide no assistence to help anyone
> determine the base distinguished name.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>

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