[Mono-list] ADO.NET in Mono & Active Directory

[Daniel Morgan]

You could look at jCIFS too.

http://jcifs.samba.org/

Java client for CIFS/SMB

A Rafael D Teixeira wrote:

>Hi Dennis, see comments inline:
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>On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 11:15 +0200, Denis Schnepf wrote:
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>>Hello,
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>>I'm currently working on a project aimed at managing Active Directory 
>>users from a linux server.
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>:(
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>>Active Directory servers can be accessed using ADO (apparently, with the 
>>OLE DB Provider), so my question is : has anyone tried to use ADO.NET 
>>with Active Directory and does it work?
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>This can probably be done in Windows, but with MS.NET in Windows,
>because:
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>1) We don't have OLE DB in Linux (Mono nevertheless implements the OLEDB
>provider but using gda that is a quite different infrastructure).
>2) Active Directory uses a proprietary and under-documented protocol, so
>AFAIK nobody in Mono is currently trying to is taking a dependency on
>Samba to try to figure out how to work with it, and write an specific
>provider for gda or better an specific managed provider for ADO.NET.
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>But hope is not lost:
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>Active Directory is known to inter-operate with other systems via LDAP,
>so if this inter-operation encompass the administration chores (what I
>guess most of it doesn't), you can use the LDAP libraries from Mono to
>try your hand. 
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>I wish you good luck,
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