Place wdua21.ini into your \windows or \winnt directory. NOTE: You must be running either Windows NT or Windows 3.1 with WIN32S installed to use this program. WIN32S is a piece of software made available by Microsoft that allows 32-bit programs (such as WDUA) to run on a 16-bit Windows operating system. It can be found at ftp.microsoft.com in the directory d:/Softlib/MSLFILES The file name is PW1118.EXE. This is a self-extracting archive that will create several more files. Read the file README.TXT that is created for installation instructions of WIN32S. Kevin Lussier klussier@atlas.arc.nasa.gov Overview The Windows Directory User Agent (WDUA) is a tool that allows a user to access the data stored in an X.500 directory. It uses a library called LIBLDAP.DLL put out by the Regents of the University of Michigan to perform the actual communication with the LDAP server. There are four main categories of operations you can perform using WDUA: Search, Browse, View and Modify. Search: There are really three types of searches that can be performed. The first will simply take the text entered in the Look For field and search from the current position in the X.500 database downward. The second is called a User Friendly Name (UFN) search. An example of a UFN search string is lussier, ames, nasa, us. The third is a Filter Search in which an actual LDAP filter is entered in the Look For Field. Browse: Browsing is simply filtering for everything at the immediate level when the position in the X.500 directory is changed. For example, entering a distinguished name of o=National Aeronautics and Space Administration, c=US would cause WDUA to automatically search for all the organizational units at that level. View: Viewing is retrieving and looking at the attribute/value pairs of an entry in the X.500 directory. WDUA has a default viewer, but can also support external viewers that interact with WDUA through a simple API. Modify: Modifying information can be either changing the attribute/value pairs of an entry in the X.500 directory, changing the relative distinguished name of an entry, creating an entry or deleting an entry. WDUA can also support external modifiers that can modify attribute/value pairs and external creators that create entries.