tried that and got :
-2147023541
The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted.

i also tried variations, but because i just set up AD about two hours ago, i could have missed something...

i did manage to get past the "specified domain could not be..." message, into some opendsobject errors (the ones with [1]/[1] at the end.)

is there a way to quickly check the name of the container on the server itsself ??

if i use :
$container = getobject("LDAP://mvdw.nl/contacts")
i get :
-2147016646
The server is not operational.

is that a prob on the server or in the syntax ? since i am using only one server, i thought it would be OK, or should i put the server name in there somewhere also ? (connserver)

have i misconfigured anything (i ran the AD setup wizard and added the dns server to the workstation in dhcp.

C:\>ping connserver.mvdw.nl

Pinging connserver.mvdw.nl [10.0.0.151] with 32 b

Reply from 10.0.0.151: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128

that doesn't seem to be the problem ...