Active Directory

[Robert_Parker@tertio.com]

Hi,
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I notice from this mailing list that Active Directory has (some ?) LDAP
capability. Is this "true" LDAP as per the RFCs ? i.e. could I use a
standard LDAP client to read information stored on an Active Directory ?

[I have read a paper from Microsoft saying that interface to Active
Directory is over COM and that there are two "namespace" addressing
schemes that can be used to access AD, one native WinNT and the other
LDAP. Even though you could use the LDAP addressing scheme it seems
you still need to talk COM to the AD, which is clearly not true LDAP.]

Ancilliary Active Directory question (if it's not too off-topic): if
data is stored in the WinNT namespace, is it accessible using the LDAP
namespace?


many thanks
Robert Parker