title: Finding CN of users in Active Directory
body: <p>I'm trying to find the Base DN of the user that can access or controls all the users in Active Directory so I can put it in my LDAP.</p>
  
  <p>Usually someone will give me this, and it looks like <code>DC=domain,DC=company,DC=com</code></p>
  
  <p>But the admin is not available, so I don't know how to find this in Active Directory.</p>
  
  <p>I'm looking for a step by step to find this info. Which tree and tabs to open and how to construct it.
  My user is: admin, the server is: <code>controller-16.domain.company.com</code>
  But I don't know if they added OU or groups or something else</p>
  
  <p>I know that this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>CN=admin,DC=domain,DC=company,DC=com
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>does not work. Nor does:</p>
  
  <pre><code>DC=domain,DC=company,DC=com
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>If the Base DN works on <a href="http://www.novell.com/communities/node/8652/gawors-excellent-ldap-browsereditor-v282" rel="nofollow">Gawor's LDAP Browser</a>, then it will work for my LDAP.</p>