User-2070978840 posted
I use the directory searcher class all the time to bind to specific people, but I remember when I used to use the WINNT provider I could do this without searching. I could easily bind to them like this:
"WinNT://LocalMachine/User".
Is there a way to do this with LDAP knowing only a persons CN, not their DN?
I am assuming using the directory searcher is slower than the WINNT way, but is that not the case?
User1354132231 posted
Under the covers, it might or might not be doing the same thing. You have to understand that the WinNT provider is actually going after the SAM - not an LDAP store. However, It can hit AD (LDAP) in kind of a compatibility mode. When you bind
using LDAP and WinNT it is actually performing a search under the covers. I would doubt that there is any significant performance difference.
