ADSI System Providers

ADSI service providers include all the providers in the following list:

• LDAP. This is a namespace implementation that is compatible with Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).
• NDS. This is a namespace implementation compatible with Novell NetWare® Directory Service (NDS).
• NWCOMPAT. This is a namespace implementation compatible with Novell NetWare® 3.x.
• WinNT. This is a namespace implementation that is compatible with Windows NT®/Windows® 2000.

Different providers have different support of methods and property methods of the ADSI interfaces. This chapter presents such provider-specific information, including a summary description of provider support of ADSI interfaces.

In ADSI different providers are associated with different DLLs. The LDAP provider is associated with adsldp.dll, adsldpc.dll and adsmsext.dll. WinNT is with adsnt.dll, NDS with adsnds.dll, and NWCOMPAT with adsnw.dll. ROUTER corresponds to activeds.dll.