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LDAP Authentication error timeout

Asked by carmodyk in Programming for ASP.NET, Microsoft Visual Basic.Net

Tags: ASP.Net, LDAP, VB.net

Hello Experts,

I seem to be stumped on this one.  I've got my website setup for authentication by Forms, and I'm using LDAP to authenticate.  In the development environment, everything works fine: Good username and pass, go to membership pages.   Bad username or pass, error message on login screen.

Problem is that when I push it to the Intranet for my company, the good username and pass works fine, but if I have a bad username or password, it errors out.  :(

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    Private Function AuthenticateUser(ByVal path As String, ByVal user As String, ByVal pass As String) As Boolean
 
        Dim dirEntry As New DirectoryEntry(path, user, pass)
        Try
            Dim nat As Object
            'if the NativeObject can be created using those credentials
            'then they are valid.
            nat = dirEntry.NativeObject
            Return True
        Catch
            Return False
        End Try
    End Function
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