Using the Windows 2000 Logon Prompt box

[Gordon Cashmore]

Is there a way to programatically call the Win2k Logon
box. I have an application that I want to call the logon
box to verify if a user exists in AD. If so, I want to
let them continue with the application, if not, kill the
application.

Can I call the Windows 2000 Logon box and get a response
from it? If not, how can I verify a user ID and their
password in AD.

Thanks in advance
Gordon

 

[Stefan Buchman]

You can't call the NT logon box... but you can use the underlying
API's and write the front-end.

You have quite a few options on how to authenticate the user (LDAP /
Native NTLM) the best resource would be MSDN (msdn.microsoft.com) it
huge but contains full documentation on user authentication.

Let me know if you need any other help.


- Stefan