Accessing Active Directory in Windows ?

[pankajit09]

Hello,

Is LDAP the only way to access the active directory ?

[TheServant]

What do you mean access active directory? I get the feeling you're asking on the wrong forums as PHP is really just for server->browser applications.

[pankajit09]

What do you mean access active directory? I get the feeling you're asking on the wrong forums as PHP is really just for server->browser applications.

If PHP is just for that then what are LDAP functions supposed to do ?

[TheServant]

My apologies, I wasn't aware of PHP's LDAP functions. Are you trying to edit windows files from a server or server files from windows? Still can't make it out, but maybe that's because I have never used LDAP before.

[pankajit09]

My apologies, I wasn't aware of PHP's LDAP functions. Are you trying to edit windows files from a server or server files from windows? Still can't make it out, but maybe that's because I have never used LDAP before.

I want to access the Active Directory which is present in a Windows Server 2003 from a local machine programmaticall y.