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Posted: 16 November 2007 at 5:44pm |
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Wow, I have searched and searched and I cannot find anything on how to setup Active Directory. I've seen a million people talking about it and how easy it was to setup, etc. Where is the FAQ/KB/Tutorial on setting this up? I cannot believe I am having this much difficulty finding it!
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Posted: 16 November 2007 at 6:00pm |
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There's not presently a KB on this.
To enable this, open in notepad the file functions/functions_windows_authentication.asp just follow the instructions in that file to enable it.
It's as simple as setting one variable in the file to true.
That's basically it, the only other thing you need to do is make sure that anonymous access to the website is disabled in IIS, so that users have to use their active directly login to browse the website the forum is running on.
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Posted: 16 November 2007 at 6:08pm |
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So, does this mean users can use their active directory login to post, etc or is this just viewing the web pages in general?
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Posted: 16 November 2007 at 6:14pm |
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When the windows authentication/active directory is enabled in Web Wiz Forums then when the users browses to the forum it will automatically log them in.
If they do not have a login in the forums database under their active directory login the forum will create one for them.
They are then logged in like any normal users and depending on how you set the forum permissions they can then post new topics, reply, edit posts, etc. within the forum.
Once anonymous browsing of the web site is disabled, then all users who go to the site will need to be logged in under their active directory account. If active directory users couldn't post then there no-one would be posting at all in the forum.
Edited by -boRg- - 16 November 2007 at 6:17pm
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Posted: 16 November 2007 at 6:22pm |
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Where does the user show up? There's no control panel that the AD user can click and the admin cannot see them under member administration.
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Posted: 16 November 2007 at 6:49pm |
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Sorry I don't get what you are asking.
When you enable AD in Web wiz forums, and a user browses to your forum they are logged in like a standard user, an account is created for them which shows up in the member list, and if they are on the board at the time in the active users list.
The only thing that you do have to watch out for, is that your own AD account will not be an admin account, so to get to the admin control panel of web wiz forums you need to log directly into the admin area using the admin.asp page. You can then place your own AD user into the Admin Group of the forum.
If you give it ago you should see, it's fairly straight forward, as all Web Wiz Forums is doing, is getting the login details from AD, it then looks to see if that AD user is in the forum database, if they are it logs them in under that user, if not, it creates an account in the forum for them and enters their AD login details into the database.
You do also have to disable anonymous browsing of your web site, which means the only people who can view the site are those logged in under AD. This means that all users on the forum would be part of AD and be logged in under AD.
Edited by -boRg- - 16 November 2007 at 6:52pm
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Posted: 16 November 2007 at 8:13pm |
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In functions/functions_windows_authentication.asp set Const blnWindowsAuthentication = True
In ISS 6:
I've unchecked "Enable anonymous access"
I've checked "Integrated Windows authentication"
When the user logs on, there is nothing to check their profile. If I click Active Forum Users it shows "Guest 1" and that's it. There is no place to log in.
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Posted: 16 November 2007 at 8:51pm |
I just tried creating a user under the admin console and I got this: Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server error '80040e2f'
Cannot insert the value NULL into column
'User_code', table 'WebWizForums.dbo.tblAuthor'; column does not allow
nulls. INSERT fails.
/Forums/admin_register.asp, line 399
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