I am trying to get AD working for DNN.  I'm on a Windows 2003 Server connected to a domain on AD using IIS6.  My DNN version is 5.1 and ActiveDirectory Authentication is version 5.0.2.

This is for an intranet and I want users to get the windows "grey box" login prompt and have DNN automatically log them in.  What is currently happening is users will get the windows box and login, but DNN will not actually put them in the users table and just has a register link where the user name should be.  Oddly enough if I manually add the user via DNN User Accounts section it will log them in no problem, however I don't want to have to do this every time we get a new user or transfer 500+ users to DNN.  

I believe all my settings in web.config are correct and I have tried a cornucopia of different options none of which work.  I think I have traced the problem to the ActiveDirectory settings in DNN, when I try and update the settings for our domain I get the following:

Accessing Global Catalog: OK

Checking Root Domain: FAIL

Accessing LDAP: OK

Find all domains in network: 

1 Domain(s):

If I can provide more information please let me know.  Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

Erika Day

Hi Mike,

I messed with the <impersonation> settings, commenting and uncommenting it, adding a user and password etc.  It's currently commented out. 

It's currently set for forms Authentication since Windows Auth just throws the user in an infinate redirect loop.

No other errors when changing the settings in the provider.  I do have to use Secure insead of Delegation in the settings because it would throw errors saying the server required a more secure method.  I have tried every other option in the settings and Secure is the only one that will give me two OK's.

Thanks for your help on this.

Erika Day

I seem to have fixed the above issue.  Coincidentally the same time all of this was going on, I was moving to a 64 bit edition of Server 2003.  I just transfered my DNN install and all of a sudden I no longer get the above errors when trying to configure AD.  It's still not adding users when they log in, but I believe that's covered in another post. 

I have no idea why the new system would work, everything is exactlly the same except I went from the 32 bit to 64.

Thanks for your help Mike,

Erika Day