We tried the ColdFusion solutions and several of the commercial solutions. The best thing we've come across (for the price) is a set of COM objects discussed in the book Windows NT/2000 ADSI Scripting for System Administration. The author distributes the precompiled COM objects from his Web site at http://www.newriders.com/adsi_web/index.htm. Don't forget to buy the book though. :)
For examples of how to use the COM objects, have a look at the tag CF_ADSI in the Allaire Developer Exchange. It is a wrapper for the one of the COM objects. The tag may provide enough functionality for what you want to do. However, it only implements a subset of the functionality in one of the available COM objects. We were using Lewis Seller's CFX tags before we found this. The CFX tags were a god send when we found them. However, we had some difficulty getting them to talk to some of our servers. In addition, they made for tricky development. By this I mean that two tags will seemingly do the same thing but return the results in different variable datatypes. Also, naming conventions were not completely standardized between the tags. It got a bit confusing. If you have a C++ programmer on staff, these issue can be overcome. We didn't, so we made do. In general, the COM objects require more code than the CFX tags, but the author was religious about naming conventions and datatypes, though lots of the results are returned in lists. We haven't experienced any problems talking to various 2000 and NT servers. Both should work for what you want to do. Benjamin S. Rogers http://www.c4.net/ v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 -----Original Message----- From: Tangorre, Michael T. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 1:15 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: CF and Authentication Hello Everyone. I have a question (might be a conglomerate of a few). I am working on an application here at school (Alfred University) and need to authenticate users off of our NT domain. Our Network admin tells me that the NT list is not separated, but could be separated into the following groups: Faculty Staff Students Now what I need to figure out is how to keep this entire application secure. I want to be able to have users to be able to peruse the site while accessing all secure parts while they are logged in. Also, based upon what the user is (student, faculty, staff, or a combination) they will see different things. Does anyone have any thoughts or ideas on how to go about authenticating off the domain and keeping their session open until they logout? Thanks, Mike ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
