"Error authenticating user. Cannot create ActiveX component"

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SteveoAtilla

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Help!

I have a web application (VB.net codebehind) that has been working on my test server for ages.

Now, I had to do a little maintenance on it for the customer, and I now cannot log on to the site! It uses Integrated Windows authentication.

I have had the authentication page working since the site was installed. It pulls all sorts of information, including group memberships.

The area that appears to be failing is where I am attempting to get all the members of two particular groups.

Here's the code:

Code: 
Progress = "SalesGroup-Start<br>"
  objGroup = GetObject("LDAP://CN=Sales,OU=IKON 
  Project,DC=ikontest,DC=dom")
  Progress += "SalesGroup-Step 1<br>"
  objOwners = GetObject("LDAP://CN=Owners,OU=IKON 
  Project,DC=ikontest,DC=dom")
  
  Progress += "SalesGroup-Step 2<br>"
  For Each strUser In objGroup.Member
    Progress += "SalesGroup-Step 2-sub<br>"
    objUser = GetObject("LDAP://" & strUser)
    ReDim Preserve arrNames(intSize)
    arrNames(intSize) = objUser.CN
    intSize = intSize + 1
  Next
  
  Try
    Progress += "SalesGroup-Step 3<br>"
    For Each strUser In objOwners.Member
 	Progress += "SalesGroup-Step 3-sub<br>"
 	objUser = GetObject("LDAP://" & strUser)
 	ReDim Preserve arrNames(intSize)
 	arrNames(intSize) = objUser.CN
 	intSize = intSize + 1
    Next
  
    Progress += "SalesGroup-Step 4<br>"
  Catch ex As Exception
    Throw New Exception("Error getting Owners group. " & ex.Message & "<br>" & Progress & "<br>")
  End Try


Here's the output I get from that code:

Error authenticating user. Error getting Owners group. Cannot create ActiveX component.
SalesGroup-Start
SalesGroup-Step 1
SalesGroup-Step 2
SalesGroup-Step 2-sub
SalesGroup-Step 2-sub
SalesGroup-Step 2-sub
SalesGroup-Step 2-sub
SalesGroup-Step 3
SalesGroup-Step 3-sub

Whic should be correct. One member of the Owner's group, and four members in the Sales group.

Any ideas? Like I said, this has been working for over a year, and I can't think of any changes I've made to my Virtual Machine, let alone any changes that would interfere with this code!

Help!!!
 
My bad!

Thanks for the views, and thinking on this.

It turns out that it had been so long since I worked on this project that I forgot that I had to comment out the secion on getting the members of the Owners group for use on my virtual server. This section of code works fine on their production server.

Sorry for using up your time!

Kahuna
 
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