DevForce Community Forum : Authenticating against Active Directory http://www.ideablade.com/forum/ This is an XML content feed of; DevForce Community Forum : DevForce 2009 : Authenticating against Active Directory Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:58:34 -700 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:10:05 -700 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 9.69 360 www.ideablade.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=1545 DevForce Community Forum http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_images/IdeaBlade_logo_tm.png http://www.ideablade.com/forum/ Authenticating against Active Directory : Thanks for posting that, btitular.... http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1545&PID=5757#5757 Author: GregD
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Posted: 06-Nov-2009 at 3:10pm

Thanks for posting that, btitular.  That should be helpful to other users trying to do the same.]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:10:05 -700 http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1545&PID=5757#5757 Authenticating against Active Directory : I was able to get the authentication... http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1545&PID=5752#5752 Author: btitular
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Posted: 05-Nov-2009 at 5:33pm

I was able to get the authentication working with active directory.

Here were the references that I used:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms998360.aspx
http://blog.jumptree.com/2008/active-directory-and-aspnet-forms-authentication

In the web.config file, the following modifications were made:

1. In the connectionStrings element, I added:

    <add name ="ADConnectionString"
         connectionString="LDAP://mydomain.com/DC=mydomain,DC=com"/>

    where mydomain would be your own domain name.
 
2. In the system.web element, the following were added:

 <authentication mode="Forms">
       <forms name=".ADAuthCookie"
              timeout="10"/>
 </authentication>

  
 <membership defaultProvider="MyADMembershipProvider">
       <providers>
         <add name="MyADMembershipProvider"
              type="System.Web.Security.ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider,
              System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0,
              Culture=neutral,
              PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"
              connectionStringName="ADConnectionString"
              connectionUsername="yourusername"
              connectionPassword="yourpassword"
              attributeMapUsername="sAMAccountName"/>
       </providers>
 </membership>

where yourusername is a valid user that can access the active directory and yourpassword is the corresponding password for that user.

The key item for me to get it working correctly was that my user's don't have to enter a domain name. In order for the authentication to work, I had to add the:

 attributeMapUsername="sAMAccountName"

to the providers element.

]]> Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:33:44 -700 http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1545&PID=5752#5752 Authenticating against Active Directory : Does anyone have a sample of a... http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1545&PID=5746#5746 Author: btitular
Subject: 1545
Posted: 05-Nov-2009 at 3:09pm

Does anyone have a sample of a silverlight client app authenticating against an active directory? I've found a few articles on MSDN that demonstrate that it's possible, but I'm a little lost as to how to accomplish this with the DevForce LoginAsync() method.

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