[quoted text, click to view] "johnny" <johnny@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello, I got this weird problem. I have an intranet application that needs
> to
> communicate with Active directory. Authentication to Web application is
> done
> by means of active directory accounts.
>
> Now I have this code:
>
> DirectoryEntry objDomain = new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://rootDse");
> string domain =
> objDomain.Properties["defaultNamingContext"].Value.ToString();
> DirectorySearcher ds = new DirectorySearcher();
> ds.SearchRoot = new DirectoryEntry(string.Format("LDAP://{0}",domain));
> ds.Filter = "(&(objectClass=group)(sAMAccountName=group_name))";
> ds.SearchScope = SearchScope.Subtree;
> SearchResult res = ds.FindOne();
>
> When I run the application from any computer and authenticate as a user
> with
> domain administrator privilige, everything works fine. When I authenticate
> as
> a normal user application fail at line
> SearchResult res = ds.FindOne();
> throwing this exception:
>
> Text: An operations error occurred
> Exception Details: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException: An
> operations error occurred
> Stack Trace:
> System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.Bind(Boolean throwIfFail) +513
> System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.Bind() +10
> System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.get_AdsObject() +10
> System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher.FindAll(Boolean
> findMoreThanOne) +198
> System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher.FindOne() +31
>
> To remind: This bunch of code is called from a library that is inside GAC
> to
> assert it's not consindered as partially trusted code.
>
> I have no idea, where the problem could be. As a first thing I thought the
> user doesn't have a privilige to communicate to AD, so I took this piece
> of
> code and put it into a Windows application and run as a normal user. It
> worked ok.
>
> Can anybody have any idea what I should do? I'd be very grateful. Thanks
> in
> advance.
>
Herewith some questions I like to be answered before I can help.
I assume you run this code from asp.net, right?
How do you authenticate and impersonate at the Web server (IIS asp.net I
assume),
more precisely, are you using "windows authentication" or something
else?
and, are you impersonating?
What version of IIS do you run (W2K or W2K3) and,
What is the asp.net identity used to run the worker process?
What is the anonymous account configured for IIS/ASP.NET? (domain or local
account)
Where is the DC located?
What exactly do you mean with:
When I run the application from any computer and authenticate as a user with
[quoted text, click to view] > domain administrator privilige, everything works fine. When I authenticate
> as
> a normal user application fail at line
do you mean when the client (browser or wathever) uses domain credentials it
works, and fails with it's local identity?
Note that when using windows authentication and impersonation at the Web
server, a client using it's domain account will impersonate the domain
account, but a local account (Workstation) will impersonate the anonymous
account when binding , this all provided Delegation is turned on for the web
server .
Willy.