active directory

[hyrogen]

Hi,

Im wanting to write a jsp/java script that finds who is currently logged in through active directory.

Im totally new to this so dont really know where to start. Has any body got any ideas? or just a simple script to get me started. Also, will I require to make any changes on our server so that Java can connect to the AD?

Many thanks!

 

[Diancecht]

Some ideas:

http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=21700

http://forums.devshed.com/ldap-programming-76/active-directory-services-using-java-api-89586.html

Cheers,
Dian

 

[hyrogen]

Thanks for the links, I've had some partial success with the following code:

Hashtable env= new Hashtable(11);
env.put(Context.SECURITY_AUTHENTICATION,"simple");
env.put(Context.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL,"name@mydomain");//User
env.put(Context.SECURITY_CREDENTIALS, "mypass");//Password
env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory");
env.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL,"ldap://mydomain:389/DC=mydomain");
try {
DirContext ctx = new InitialDirContext(env);
String[] sAttrIDs = new String[2];
Attributes attr = ctx.getAttributes("");
System.out.println("Domain Name:"+ attr.get("name").get());
}
catch(NamingException e) {
System.err.println("Problem getting attribute: " + e);
}

However Im getting an error with the Attributes attr = ctx.getAttributes("");

Problem getting attribute: javax.naming.PartialResultException: [LDAP: error code 10 - 0000202B: RefErr: DSID-031006E0, data 0, 1 access points
ref 1: 'mydomain'

Any ideas?

 

[Diancecht]

Maybe this helps:

http://java.sun.com/products/jndi/tutorial/ldap/index.html

Cheers,
Dian

 

[hyrogen]

Thanks, I managed to figure it out. All I had to do was remove the /DC=mydomain out of the Provider_URL line. Ive now managed to retrieve attributes and values, but I do not now how to find out if the client machine is logged into active directory?

Thanks for your help.