Descriptions for Tables and Fields pulled using ODBC Drivers

I am trying to write some programs that pull validate users against their
novell username and password. Problem is with the thousands of fields that
exist I don't know where to start looking for the correct data columns. Is
there any documentation out there that gives a description of each field?

Thank you,

Devin Avery

Hi

There's a general schema documentation at
http://developer.novell.com/ndk/doc/ndslib/index.html?page=/ndk/doc/ndslib/schm_
enu/data/h4q1mn1i.html
with a list of base attributes and the classes associated with them.

The ODBCNDS help file includes the special names used by the driver, such as
the class UserNDS and the attributes such as NDS_Name etc.

But I don't think you want to use the odbc driver for validating password,
as the password is not readable and you can't validate it using odbcnds.

You can use the activex ndap controls or activex ldap controls which include
validatepassword methods in the authentication controls.  Let me know if you
want more information on this.

Thank you
Susan