here's some additional info on how to traverse the AD. Advantage of this is the non usage of COM
http://www.codeproject.com
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I need to authenticate against an AD from C++, I can do it in c#, but a vendor needs it in C++ and I just can't get anything going.
Can anyone post some code that will take a username, password, and domain from 3 textboxes, ask the AD if the credentials are valid, and return a true or false?
Thanks in advance!!
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here's some additional info on how to traverse the AD. Advantage of this is the non usage of COM
http://www.codeproject.com
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by: jkrPosted on 2009-11-02 at 09:15:04ID: 25721292
Take a look at http://support.microsoft.c om/default .aspx?scid =KB;en- us; q180548 ("How to validate user credentials on Microsoft operating systems") - you basically call
BOOL WINAPI SSPLogonUser(LPTSTR szDomain, LPTSTR szUser, LPTSTR szPassword);
from the code provided in the above article to check that. The advantage is that this works with every logon probider, not only with AD.