windows service authentication

[Richard]

I have a windows 2000 service that needs to access the NDS
of a netware 5.1 server. The local system account cannot
authenticate against the netware server and the other
accounts I can choose are either domain or local windows
accounts which also cannot authenticate. I cannot seem to
get Gateway Services for Netware to work since the
resource I'm trying to access is not a share or printer.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Help would be most appreciated.

Richard

 

[Keith V. Klenke]

LDAP?

so what is it that you are trying to get to then?

 

[Guest]

I am trying to access data held for each user in the NDS;
in fact it's a DLL that has been provided for a product
called PCounter which holds a print account balance in the
NDS. I need to call the DLL from a Windows service to
retrieve user balances from the NDS on a seperate server
but cannot get the system account to authenticate with the
Netware box.

I'm not sure that LDAP will help with this problem.

Thanks

Richard

 

[Sandy]

Hi Richard,

install Novell Client 4.83 SP2 + patch E, then configure it with the correct
tree and context.

Next create an NDS/eDirectory user object account in that context, and
create a domain or local user account with the exact same name and password
as the NDS/eDirectory user object, and use that account as the service
account. As long as the NDS/eDirectory user has the necessary rights it
should work.

-Sandy