Windows Authentication for beginners...

[checkai]

I want to be able to read which AD Groups the connected user is in. Here's what I have so far, but it seems as though, only the users local groups are being read; not those in AD..

Dim userName As String
        Dim wp As System.Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal = New System.Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal(System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent())
        Me.lbluser.Text = wp.Identity.Name
        Me.TextBox1.Text = "IT Developers: " & wp.IsInRole("VirchowKrause\ITDevelopers") & vbCrLf & "Administrators: " & wp.IsInRole("BUILTIN\Administrators")

The Administrators = True, but the ITDevelopers role which is in AD, shows as False.

Any suggestions or tips for doing this would be appreciated

dlc

 

[evaleah]

The way I handle this is I create keys in my Web.config file for the domain groups I want to check for first.

<appSettings>
  <add key="Role" value="DOMAIN\GroupName" />
</appSettings>

Then when I want to check for that role I do the following:

If User.IsInRole(ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings("Role")) Then
  'Execute Some Code here
End If

HTH
Eva