Re: Accessing ActiveDirectory through LDAP with .NET

From: Paul Clement (UseAdddressAtEndofMessage_at_swspectrum.com)
Date: 12/27/04 

Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 14:13:36 -0600

On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 12:36:30 -0600, "Tim Mavers" <webview@hotmail.com> wrote:

¤ Thanks for the link. My application is an ASP.NET app (C#). Will this work
¤ across the Internet (I didn't seen any mention of security/firewall
¤ configurations, etc.). In other words, my app is runing at a data-center
¤ and the AD is at some other company. What would need to happen to access
¤ the AD (via LDAP) from my app at the datacenter? Our current approach (not
¤ using LDAP) is to access it through the AD API which needs domain access
¤ (something the company will not allow across the Internet--for obvious
¤ reasons). Here's a quick example to help illustrate my problem:
¤
¤ 1. User browses to my login page runing at the datacenter
¤ 2. User enters name and password in my app.
¤ 3. My app then has to (somehow) authenticate the name/pw with the company's
¤ AD server running at some other datacenter on some part of the planet).

Is your web server (that is hosting your application) a member of the domain that you need to
authenticate against?

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

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