Searching in Active Directory (also using LDAP in Windows)

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"Rudy Schockaert" <rudy.schockaert at pandora.be> wrote in message news:<2d0ga.6354$t_2.924 at afrodite.telenet-ops.be>...
> Hi,
> 
> I have a troubles accessing Active Directory. When I use Mark Hammond's
> win32com extensions, I can connect and bind to the server, but when I try to
> enumerate an OU, I sometimes get results back, but not always.
> Also when I enumerate the first time, and it works, it won't work a second
> time, unless I delete the objects and recreate them.
> 
> I also tried to create a simple query using ADODB.RecordSets, but that
> doesn't work at all.
> 
> I also tried Python-LDAP, but no avail either.
> 
> Has anyone been able to access or search Active Directory succesfully? I
> googled till passed midnight yesterday, but couldn't find anything helpfull.
> 
> Does anyone know of another LDAP module for Python on Windows?
> 
> I can always send some example scripts if someone's interested.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Rudy

I've always just used the ADSI (Active Directory Scripting Interface)
components via win32com.client.Dispatch, and have never had a problem
getting the data I wanted.