I am new to DNN.  I have a portal up and running with forms authentication, and now I want to enable AD auth.  I have been reading about the steps involved with setting this up, but my installation is missing a file or files.  In the following thread, Tam Tran refers to specific steps to enable AD auth:

http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/Forums/tabid/795/postid/18959/Default.aspx

The first step requires me to "go to Admin/Authentication page to configure Windows Authentication."  When I go to this page, there is no reference to Windows Authentication -- the only three sections are "DotNetNuke Authentication Settings", "Windows LiveID Settings", and "OpenID Settings", none of which refer to "Windows Authentication" in any way.

The second step says, "In IIS Manager find /Admin/Security/WindowsSignin.aspx", but this file does not exist anywhere in my path.

The third step says, "remove the comment at authentication httpmodule".  When I do this, I get a "Server Error in '/myapp' Application".

So, I thought maybe I needed to install a missing module.  I noticed that there is an ActiveDirectory module (ActiveDirectory_01.00.05_install.zip), but when I attempt to install this module through the host account, I get the following error:

ExceptionSystem.Exception: Dnn load failed, aborting at DotNetNuke.Modules.Admin.ResourceInstaller.PaDnnLoaderFactory.GetDnnAdapter() at DotNetNuke.Modules.Admin.ResourceInstaller.PaInstaller.Install()

I figure I must have missed a step during setup, but I am too far along on customizing now and don't want to start over.  Is there anything I can do?  I am totally lost here.

Thanks for any advice you can give.

~Jon Casper

You don't mention what version of DNN you're using but if it's DNN 4.6.x and above then the 01.00.05 is the correct version that you want. Download the User's Guide from this page and follow that for setting up the provider. Anything from Tam regarding the setup is out dated as he hasn't been involved in the project for over two years and a lot has changed since then.

A quick answer I can give you is that you don't install the provider like a normal module in DNN 4. It's installed under Host->Host Settings->Authentication Services.

I don't know if that will work or not. Have you tried just dc=mydomain,dc=com? For the next release I'm going to attempt to allow connections from a server that is not on the domain but I don't know if it's going to work or not as of yet.