Re: How do you figure out the LDAP://? ("Error authenticating. Error authenticating user. The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted")

From: Marc Nivens [MSFT] (marcn_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/25/03 

Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 00:35:53 -0500

DC= should be followed by a domain DN, not a servername. If you want to
bind to DC1 in domain domain.com, you would use this:

LDAP://DC1/DC=domain,DC=com

If you use serverless binding, you would just use:

LDAP://DC=domain,DC=com 

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"mrwoopey" <mrwoopey@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I am using the example "Authenticate against the Active Directory by
> Using Forms Authentication and Visual Basic .NET":
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;326340
>
> But I am having a problem figuring out the LDAP://
>
> The LDAP:// that I pass looks like this (i substitued generic the
> following with generic name):
>
> Dim adPath as String =
> LDAP://DC=SomeDomainControllerComputerThatHasActiveDirectory"
>
> But I am receiveing the following message when I try to log in with
> the example:
> "Error authenticating. Error authenticating user. The specified domain
> either does not exist or could not be contacted"
>
> How do I figure out how my "LDAP://" should look like?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Phin