LDAP Search with winldap.h on AD Server

Question

I am trying to do a LDAP search and it is not working on my Active Directory Test Server. I use this code:

#include 
...
LDAP* ld = ldap_ini         


        

Answer 1

Unless otherwise configured, you must bind using a valid account name and password for Microsoft Active Directory servers, otherwise it will return the operations error for all queries except a very small handful.

i.e. that:

ldap_simple_bind_s(ld, NULL, NULL);

Needs to be replaced with something like:

char *username = "cn=aUser,ou=Users,dc=myDomain,dc=extension";
char *password = "this is the password";
ldap_simple_bind_s(ld, username, password);