I'm looking for ways to have my users login to my program using their windows login and then verifying their users rights via the groups they are members of. I've been searching the net for help on this and haven't been very successful. Does anyone have any good examples for doing this??

TIA
David

What technology do you want to use? LDAP?


Hal Levy
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I am making a VB.Net front end to a SQL Database. I want to implement various levels of access to the program through the users windows active directory account groups. I need to know now to give the user a means to logging, verify their account on the server and then lookup there security groups.

Ok- and again I ask, do you want to use LDAP to talk to active directory?

Here's a primer
http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/ac...rectoryuse.asp

Hal Levy
I am here to help you, not do it for you.

Yup...that's what I'm looking for. Thanx for the link. Do you have anything more indepth than that??

Thanx
David

I also see that all the examples are in C#. You have anything in Vb.Net?? That has been my dilemma. I haven't been able to find VB.Net examples on doing this.

Thanx again.
David

The basic idea should be easily convertable- the objects are the same.. just change the syntax around.

In terms of more in depth- that's really all there is to it...

Hal Levy
I am here to help you, not do it for you.

Hal,

I'm having trouble using the LDAP syntax. I've never used it before. Can you help me out here?? I guess me overall problem is that I do not know C# at all and I'm having issues doing the conversion.

Thanx
David

We do it in C# here.. what syntax are you having trouble converting? Perhaps I can give you the conversion.


Hal Levy
I am here to help you, not do it for you.

VB.Net. I had assumed that since this is a VB.NET forum that the examples posted would be in VB.Net format.
Thanx
David