Re: ASP.NET and Active Directory Authentication

From: Paul Clement (UseAdddressAtEndofMessage_at_swspectrum.com)
Date: 01/05/05

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    On 5 Jan 2005 05:43:35 -0800, santa@emailme.nu (Sjaak) wrote:

    ¤ Hi All,
    ¤
    ¤ I'm trying to get an ASP.NET Application to work with Active Directory
    ¤ but not having much luck.
    ¤
    ¤ On the MS Website I found this example :
    ¤ http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/sds/sds/active_directory_authentication_from_asp__net.asp
    ¤
    ¤ I've followed every step explained but when I run it try to login I
    ¤ get
    ¤ the error : Error authenticating. Error authenticating user. The
    ¤ specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted
    ¤
    ¤ The LDAP connect string is 100% correct.
    ¤
    ¤ Any idea's what could be going wrong??
    ¤
    ¤ Also I tried a demo from http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/adsi1.asp
    ¤ but also this doesn't work, with this one I get the error :
    ¤ **The specified domain either does not exist or could not be
    ¤ contacted**
    ¤
    ¤ It's driving me crazy! Any help or suggestion are welcome.
    ¤

    Try the following code to determine what the root LDAP path is for your domain:

            Dim RootDSE As New DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry("LDAP://RootDSE")
            Response.Write RootDSE.Properties("DefaultNamingContext").Value

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

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