windows authentication & openldap: explanation.

["brian jones" <bj_rui@hotmail.com>]

i've seen posts in the archives mentioning the inability of windows clients 
(2000, nt) to authenticate domain logins against an openldap directory, but 
i haven't been able to find any explanations of why.   can't windows clients 
use ldap for their authentication?  i thought they used ldap to authenticate 
against a dc running active directory, is that incorrect?  or is this just 
another case of non-standard implementations? anyway, if someone could give 
me a clue or at least point me in the right direction i'd really appreciate 
it.  we're probably going to use a samba server as a pdc and then have that 
check passwords against an ldap server instead of a local password file, but 
i'm really curious why windows and openldap don't work in this way.  thanks 
in advance,
-brian



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