Re: Network Path not found

From: Willy Denoyette [MVP] (willy.denoyette@pandora.be)
Date: 09/06/02 

From: "Willy Denoyette [MVP]" <willy.denoyette@pandora.be>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 12:37:26 +0200

Don't use DirectoryServices/ADSI for this, use Windows Authentication and WebServer.User.IsInrole to check group membership.

Willy.

"Albert Waelti" <albert.waelti@gmx.net> wrote in message news:12fe401c2557a$ac5296e0$39ef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA08...
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to test if a user belongs to the
> group "MyGroupName" and I used the
> following code, but I always get the error "Network Path
> not found.". What's
> wrong ?
> I'm using ASP.NET.
>
> ============================================
> Dim oDirNTRoot As DirectoryEntry = New
> DirectoryEntry("WinNT://MyDomain/computer", sUsername,
> sPassword)
>
> Dim oUserDir As DirectoryEntry = oDirNTRoot.Children.Find
> (sUsername, "user")
> Dim oGroupDir As DirectoryEntry = oDirNTRoot.Children.Find
> ("MyGroupName",
> "group")
>
> Dim bIsGroupMember As Boolean = False
> If oGroupDir.Name <> "" Then
> bIsGroupMember = oGroupDir.Invoke("IsMember", New
> Object()
> {oUserDir.Path.ToString()})
> End If
>
> ============================================
>
> Are there other ways to do this using LDAP ?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Albert
>
>

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