Anyone care to venture on this? I use both the latter but keep hearing every now and again some very interesting things that can be done with LDAP. For example, having samba authenticate against ...

We are currently having a debate at work about what to use for authentication against AD from our *NIX systems (OS & Application). While I see a place for LDAP on some things, my preference is ...

LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is a software protocol used for locating data about organizations, individuals and other resources, such as files and devices, on public and corporate ...