Windows Authentication

[Pepi Tonas]

Hi there...

I am trying to use the Windows user/password combination to grant or
deny access to my application. For this I want to display a login
dialog window requesting the userID and password and submit these two
to Windows (98 / 2000 / XP) and obtain back a confirmation or denial
of the access.

Any help will be appreciated. Code sample even more.

Thanks folks...

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Pepi,

Do you know there is a complete sample in the VB resourcekit about your
question.

Create a Login Dialog Box
VB.net Resource kit
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/vbrkit/default.aspx

And if you have problems installing the resource kit
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/vbrkit/faq/#installvdir

I hope this helps?

Cor

 

[Greg Burns]

Cor, just an FYI:

I finally got a chance to take a look at the Resource Kit you spoke of.

There is a "How-To Create a Login Dialog Box" that is pretty slick. But, it
does NOT prompt for a Windows username/password. It only works with a
custom username/password from a backend db or xml. (There is a checkbox to
slide by authentication if you are logged in as an administrative account
into windows, but it doesn't prompt for and check your windows password.)

I have made something that queries AD and does want I want, but I was hoping
for a MS perspective on how to do this.

(Even though the user is already logged onto the computer, we have a
requirement that they must log into the app to proceed. And we want to reuse
the username/password info already in AD.)

Thanks,
Greg

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Greg,

You are right, I knew there was something with my message and always when I
look at that login I think "that is very basic and I miss the authority",
however some people want to do the authority using there SQL server maybe
that was the reason they did it that way.

But there is as well a sample in the resource kit about Role Based Security,
I think that combining those two would a good entree to the problem.

Thanks for pointing me on this.

Cor


"Greg Burns"
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