OK I'm WAY over my head with this one. A little help would be appreciated. I am using Snitz on a webserver that is somewhat of a web page portal site for my intranet. This Win2K server is running other home grown (I didn't write them) com objects and scripts that use the Active Directory for authentication. I have so far been authenticating twice to get into the forum. Once on the main portal page, and again whenever I need to post. This of course is a pain so I want to merge the authentication. As far as Snitz forums goes, I don't care what the password is. I just want to get the username from this other app. I can pass Snitz the username by including one file and calling <%=strloginname%> whenever I need to authenticate in the forum.
So what's over my head is this: Where to being...How do I tell Snitz to not use passwords and get it's username from the <%=strloginname%>. In fact the only profile stuff that I care about in Snitz is the username and email address, and this other products stores very similar data in another SQLDB. So if I could figure out how to check someones loginname, then go look in this other SQL table and get the corresponding email address, I wouldn't need any of the Snitz profile stuff at all.
I am so overwhelmed by this. This sounds like a ton of work. What do you think?
Don't give up that quick ! (only a newbie thinks we don't help newbies, others know that we always try to help) <img src=icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle>
You posted this in the NT authentication forum, there aren't many members using NT authentication (all that don't aggree with me, just prove I'm wrong by helping Lohman <img src=icon_smile_tongue.gif border=0 align=middle>)
I'm not using the NT authentication stuff often enought myself but lets see if I can point you in the right direction. The NT authentication is using the NT logon name to authenticate the user (and no extra password). You could try tapping into that and add the username from the other application there. If you open inc_functions.asp you'll find a function named <b>NTAuthenticate()</b> that handles the NT authentication.
See if you can take it from there...
<b>Pierre Gorissen</b>
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Posted - 07 December 2000 : 16:03:40
