Re: pulling configurationNamingContext from Active Directory Root DSE

On 30 Jan 2009, at 22:57, Ismael Lezcano wrote:

> 	Hello, new poster, all noob disclaimers apply.
>
> 	I'm trying to write script that will be a concept for other scripts.
> I want to connect to Active Directory and have the script
> intelligently decipher the configuration naming context to thereafter
> poll for other values. However it seems that I can't retrieve
> configurationNamingContext from the Root DSE. When I itemize the
> attributes for the Root DSE, the following are available:
>
> subschemaSubentry
> namingContexts
> supportedControl
> supportedLDAPVersion
> supportedSASLMechanisms
> supportedExtension
>
> 	These are nice, but not what I'm looking for.

You can ask for non-standard attributes from the root too:

> my $dse = $ldap->root_dse();

my $dse = $ldap->root_dse(attrs => qw(configurationNamingContext  
namingContexts));

This is a documented bit of the API. Does calling that return anything  
from your AD?

Cheers,

Chris