Re: Retrieving User's Groups from Active Directory using ASP.NET

From: Paul Clement (UseAdddressAtEndofMessage_at_swspectrum.com)
Date: 09/28/04 

Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 08:28:49 -0500

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 01:51:03 -0700, "L Magarian" <LMagarian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

¤ I'm using forms based authentication and LDAP to authenticate a user against
¤ Active Directory. This is working fine.
¤
¤ The point where I'm stuck is retireving the groups this user is assigned.
¤
¤ My web server and active directory servers are different machines. When I
¤ test by deploying the web app on the active directory machine it does work.
¤ However, I will not be able to employ this work around in the production
¤ setting.
¤
¤ Can anyone advise me as to how retrieve these user groups?
¤
¤ Are there special settings for searching the Active Directory when running a
¤ web app off a different server?

Could you indicate what type of error you are receiving and identify the line of code where it
occurs?

Paul ~~~ pclement@ameritech.net
Microsoft MVP (Visual Basic)

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