BANGALORE, INDIA: A directory service like Active Directory in Windows is used to store users' information (name, address, e-mail, phone etc.) in a centralized location. Besides being used as ...

Scalability, tight coupling with Microsoft infrastructure, and ease of management in the on-premise world all contributed to catapulting Active Directory and the associated LDAP protocol into the ...

For a long time the only way to use Active Directory (AD) for VPN authentication and authorization was to use a RADIUS server such as Cisco ACS that could use AD as an external database. With the ...

One of the advantages of Microsoft's Active Directory is that it allows users to search objects in the database by performing Lightweight Directory Access Protocol queries. LDAP is an industry ...

I have a problem. At work we have several directories. A certain group of people have user accounts in our LDAP directory and now we are trying to set up some new stuff for them where they need to ...

Has anyone gotten this to work? We have a working setup on Ubuntu 10.10 using Winbind and Samba 3.5x but have been unsucessful getting a similar configuration working with Ubuntu 12.04 (samba 3.6). I ...