need help connecting to Active Directory from my web app 1

[tperri]

I've never interacted with Active Directory and ASP.Net before, so I need a little help. I've read the Patterns and Practices artice for use the ActiveDirectoryMembership provider - however, I'm unsure how to find my LDAP:// address and my DC settings (I'm not sure how to refer to these).

The guy who set up the server for this project I"m working on has never used Windows before and is used to Linux, so he an't tell me what i need to know.

Can anyone help me figure out how I can make my connection string to get the Login control to work with AD?

Thanks in advance
tperri

 

[philhege]

The LDAP address begins with your domain identifier. The rest of the address really depends on your specific AD structure.

So, for example, my LDAP address is "LDAP://dc=myserver,dc=local" From there, you may have entries for organizational unit (ou), common name (cn), distinguished name (dn) and so forth.

Google "LDAP" for examples and look through TechNet for instructions about querying the AD structure.


HTH

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[tperri]

phil,

Thanks for the response. I've never dealt with Active Directory before, so please bare with me.

I am not sure which is my domain identifier. I did go to My Network places, to my Local Area Connection, Properties of TCP/IP and see an IP address - would this be it?

And if I sent you a screen shot by email of my Active Directory (As far as I can tell there are no OU - everything is just in the Users folder), coupld you steer me as far as what I'm supposed to be looking at.

Sorry to sound so newb to this.... but I am.

Thanks
T

 

[gbaughma]

Maybe this will give you an idea....

<%

Sub ldapGetUsers


' Routine to get all local users from LDAP
' and load into an array

Set con = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
con.provider = "ADsDSOObject"
con.open "Active Directory Provider"
Set Com = CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
Set Com.ActiveConnection = con

Com.CommandText = "select name from 'LDAP://SERVERNAME/ou=Users,ou=Site-Unit,DC=domainname,DC=org' WHERE objectCategory='person' ORDER BY sn"

Set rs = Com.Execute
arrUsers = rs.getrows

rs.close
set rs=nothing
con.close
set con=nothing

End Sub

%>

Just my 2¢
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--Greg

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[jbenson001]

That's fine for an ASP app

 

[tperri]

The 'LDAP://SERVERNAME/ou=Users,ou=Site-Unit,DC=domainname,DC=org' part is what I'm trying to figure out - I'm not sure what the settings here would be.

 

[tperri]

I think perhaps I figured it out, as I am not getting an error about the container anymore. Now I'm getting an error stating my login is invalid. I'm using the same login I use to log into the Server machine.... so that is my challenge now.

 

[gbaughma]

That's fine for an ASP app

Isn't that what we were talking about? Or is ASP.NET significantly different?

Excuse my ignorance... I'm a little vague on the whole ASP vs. ASP.NET thing....



Just my 2¢
-Cole's Law: Shredded cabbage

--Greg

http://parallel.tzo.com

 

[ca8msm]

Or is ASP.NET significantly different?

It's a completely different beast!

However, your code was just an example of how to connect so in the case of this thread I think it's actually fairly irrelevant which language you used to demonstrate it.


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[tperri]

I was able to finally get the correct settings for my connect after too much time spent playing with it. Thank you everyone for your help