I keep trying to tell our sysadmins that LDAP isn't a service but a protocol. They look at me like I'm speaking Greek. I thought I must be the one who didn't know what I was talking about.
Just to make sure I'm right about this: LDAP is a protocol that NT/W2K servers use to communicate domain information to each other. So if I have something that can speak LDAP (which PHP can) all I should need is the address/password of the server I want to talk to.
Is this as simple as I think it should be and our guys just aren't familiar with how to do it?