[Samba] AD LDAP

[Rowland Penny]

On Wed, 27 Jun 2018 13:24:31 +0200 (CEST)
Michal via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> > This is problem. We used to be able get "public" data from ldap 
> "> without authentification (password attributes can not be read
> without 
> > user bind, of course). Is there any way how to do it? 
> 
> Yes, but before I tell you, why do you feel you need to do this, what 
> are you searching for ? 
> "
>  
> 
>   We use GroupOffice and it is configured to use LDAP; it is looking
> up for users and emails in certain form fields (well, I do not know,
> if it queries LDAP with or without authentication in this case).

I think you will find you need to use authentication, see here:

https://www.group-office.com/wiki/IMAP_or_LDAP_authentication

> 
>   We have another 3rd party app, which searches LDAP for user data
> and in this case I am quite sure they do not use authentication,
> because they update their user list "offline" once a day without user
> logged in and they do not know "root" or any particular dn and
> password (AFAIK).

Most of these third party apps can be used with AD, try an internet
search on the apps name and active directory

Rowland