Authenticating Windows 2003 users to a central LDAP

[preetam R]

Hi Ahmad,

    FYI: The Domain Controller itself contains a LDAP
server.

Thanks,
Preetam

--- Ahmad Arshad <ahmad.arshad at nyu.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am not sure if this is the proper list for this...
> but any help would 
> be appreciated...
> 
> We are running a Windows 2003 R2 server whose domain
> is used for user 
> and workstation authentication for a portion of the
> university 
> population. We wanted to tie this domain lets call
> it systems.private 
> into the university wide ldap server lets call is
> ldap.nyu.edu which 
> stores university wide usernames/passwords etc.
> 
> This way users who are part of the domain (remember
> we only want users 
> who are part of the domain to have access) would be
> able to login to the 
> domain.. using their IDs and passwords provided by
> the university.
> 
> I am not sure if this makes any sense...
> 
> so to recap
> 
> a) User tries to log into the domain with his id and
> password.
> b) The domain controller checks to see if the user
> id is in its database.
> c) if it is, it forwards the credential to the ldap
> server for 
> authentication.
> d) if the ldap authenticates, the user is allowed to
> login...
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated..
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Ahmad S Arshad
> 
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