“A referral was returned from the server” exception when accessing AD from C#

Question

DirectoryEntry oDE = new DirectoryEntry(\"LDAP://DC=Test1,DC=Test2,DC=gov,DC=lk\");

using (DirectorySearcher ds = new DirectorySearcher(oDE))
{
    ds.PropertiesToL         


        

Answer 1

I know this might sound silly, but I recently came across this myself, Make sure the domain controller is not read-only.

Answer 2

You may also need to enable ReferralChasing on the DirectorySearcher - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms180884(VS.80).aspx.