LDAP PHP can they be used to authenticat

[Anon]

Can you use LDAP and PHP to authenticate?

When ever I try to BIND to my LDAP server using a username and password it tells me that there is "no such object"

example

$r=ldap_bind($ds, $nw_user, $password);

where $nw_user is

cn=webusr,ou=External, ou=Users,o=IFR

Any input would be a real bonus.

Thanks

[anikin]

I use the same coding to connect to a Windows Domain, and i use LDAP even to create and delete objects in Active Directory.

My LDAP string is:
cn=hugo dias,cn=users,dc=di,dc=mni,dc=pt

Being my name in the domain di.mni.pt, Hugo Dias, and not my login. With the login i always get an error.

[Anon]

This got me thinking, On an NDS LDAP server the username is held in an attribute called UID not CN.

Thats what was stuffing it up.

Cheers

Phil

Next step is to use encrypted passwords? Done anything with that?