LDAP connection syntax

[Steve House]

I'm having trouble with the syntax to connect to my ldap server in outlook
2000. Suppose my domain is LargeCo.Com, my ldap server is DeepThought and
the user is IDummy. What should I use to connect to it. Under Outlook 2002
there is a setting for the search base that I assume is the same syntax,
cn=? dc=? etc. Where in MS can I find an article on this? I'm only able to
find articles that pre-suppose you already know this.

Thanks in advance,

Steve House
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Well it does give you an example except the "cn" in the example is wrong (at
least it never worked for me :-D). It should be "ou"

ou=users,dc=subdomain,dc=domain,dc=com

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-What do the Outlook Icons Mean?
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[Steve House]

Robert,
I did a search on that site, as well as a find on several pages and couldn't
find a reference to ldap.

Well it does give you an example except the "cn" in the example is wrong (at
least it never worked for me :-D). It should be "ou"

ou=users,dc=subdomain,dc=domain,dc=com

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-What do the Outlook Icons Mean?
-Create an Office 2003 CD slipstreamed with Service Pack 1

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I'm having trouble with the syntax to connect to my ldap server in outlook
2000. Suppose my domain is LargeCo.Com, my ldap server is DeepThought and
the user is IDummy. What should I use to connect to it. Under Outlook
2002
there is a setting for the search base that I assume is the same syntax,
cn=? dc=? etc. Where in MS can I find an article on this? I'm only able
to
find articles that pre-suppose you already know this.

Thanks in advance,

Steve House
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Roady [MVP]]

What site? I gave you the example of how you should enter the search base in
the box.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-What do the Outlook Icons Mean?
-Create an Office 2003 CD slipstreamed with Service Pack 1

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Robert,
I did a search on that site, as well as a find on several pages and
couldn't
find a reference to ldap.

in
message news:%[email protected]...

Well it does give you an example except the "cn" in the example is wrong (at
least it never worked for me :-D). It should be "ou"

ou=users,dc=subdomain,dc=domain,dc=com

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-What do the Outlook Icons Mean?
-Create an Office 2003 CD slipstreamed with Service Pack 1

-----

I'm having trouble with the syntax to connect to my ldap server in outlook
2000. Suppose my domain is LargeCo.Com, my ldap server is DeepThought and
the user is IDummy. What should I use to connect to it. Under Outlook
2002
there is a setting for the search base that I assume is the same
syntax,
cn=? dc=? etc. Where in MS can I find an article on this? I'm only able
to
find articles that pre-suppose you already know this.

Thanks in advance,

Steve House
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Steve House]

Ok, I went to www.howto-outlook.com and had the result I mentioned. I
appreciate the effort but your response is in the same vein as MS. All I
ask for is an example so I can understand the syntax.

Well it does give you an example except the "cn" in the example is wrong (at
least it never worked for me :-D). It should be "ou"

ou=users,dc=subdomain,dc=domain,dc=com

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-What do the Outlook Icons Mean?
-Create an Office 2003 CD slipstreamed with Service Pack 1

-----

I'm having trouble with the syntax to connect to my ldap server in outlook
2000. Suppose my domain is LargeCo.Com, my ldap server is DeepThought and
the user is IDummy. What should I use to connect to it. Under Outlook
2002
there is a setting for the search base that I assume is the same syntax,
cn=? dc=? etc. Where in MS can I find an article on this? I'm only able
to
find articles that pre-suppose you already know this.

Thanks in advance,

Steve House
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Hi Steve,

That URL is part of my signature, not my answer ;-)

This is the example;
ou=users,dc=subdomain,dc=domain,dc=com

As you can see it follows the Active Directory structure since the OU stands
for your Organizational Units

So say you are running the domain local.contoso.com and your are keeping you
have an OU for the financial department called Fininacial and you are
keeping the users accounts in an OU called User the search string will look
like;

ou=users,ou=financial,dc=local,dc=contoso,dc=com

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-What do the Outlook Icons Mean?
-Create an Office 2003 CD slipstreamed with Service Pack 1

-----

Ok, I went to www.howto-outlook.com and had the result I mentioned. I
appreciate the effort but your response is in the same vein as MS. All I
ask for is an example so I can understand the syntax.
in
message news:%[email protected]...

Well it does give you an example except the "cn" in the example is wrong (at
least it never worked for me :-D). It should be "ou"

ou=users,dc=subdomain,dc=domain,dc=com

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-What do the Outlook Icons Mean?
-Create an Office 2003 CD slipstreamed with Service Pack 1

-----

I'm having trouble with the syntax to connect to my ldap server in outlook
2000. Suppose my domain is LargeCo.Com, my ldap server is DeepThought and
the user is IDummy. What should I use to connect to it. Under Outlook
2002
there is a setting for the search base that I assume is the same
syntax,
cn=? dc=? etc. Where in MS can I find an article on this? I'm only able
to
find articles that pre-suppose you already know this.

Thanks in advance,

Steve House
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Graham Standring]

I found your message when looking for similar information myself. In my
searches on the web I found the following website -
http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/294.html - I don't know if this is
the sort of thing you were looking for but hopefully it will be of some
help.

G Standring
University of Sunderland

Ok, I went to www.howto-outlook.com and had the result I mentioned. I
appreciate the effort but your response is in the same vein as MS. All I
ask for is an example so I can understand the syntax.
in
message news:%[email protected]...

Well it does give you an example except the "cn" in the example is wrong (at
least it never worked for me :-D). It should be "ou"

ou=users,dc=subdomain,dc=domain,dc=com

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-What do the Outlook Icons Mean?
-Create an Office 2003 CD slipstreamed with Service Pack 1

-----

I'm having trouble with the syntax to connect to my ldap server in outlook
2000. Suppose my domain is LargeCo.Com, my ldap server is DeepThought and
the user is IDummy. What should I use to connect to it. Under Outlook
2002
there is a setting for the search base that I assume is the same
syntax,
cn=? dc=? etc. Where in MS can I find an article on this? I'm only able
to
find articles that pre-suppose you already know this.

Thanks in advance,

Steve House
(e-mail address removed)