Active Directory Groups Authenticate

I've got a windows application that needs to authenticate to the active directory.
But the only members of certain group can start the application.
for example only the administrators of the active directory can start the application.

Cheers,
Mike

Try posting this question on an Active Directory forum.

Thanks
Laurentiu

Accessing Users & Members in Active Directory via Linked Server

Hi,

I'm trying to extract all the users and their membership to groups, and the membership of groups to groups from active directory though a link to server.

I can get the users. I can get the groups.... individually.

I can't get the info of what user is a member of or who are members of a group.

Anyone know how to do this or am I going to have to right a vb app? (Anyone already got the code...)

I want to load this data into tables for reporting in my Data Warehouse.

Cheers

Chris

Take a look at the following API:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/netmgmt/netmgmt/netgroupgetusers.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/netmgmt/netmgmt/netlocalgroupgetmembers.asp

Follow the links from the bottom of the articles for other related API.

Hope this helps.

Laurentiu