Dear All, Does anybody know, 1. How to authenticate the user in OpenLDAP DS, using Microsoft platform. e.g. vb, C# etc. 2. If 'Yes', to above number one and the product used for validation is from .NET family then can we convert that component into normal COM component? If yes, how? 3. Can anybody provide free code to do this? Please reply. Thanks. Regards Pravin Joshi