Checking if user is in group

Im trying to check to see if a user is in a group and if so i want to display some imnofrmation if not i want to hide everything. So i set this up to see if i can check if a user is in say true if not false but i am getting the following error. Can anyone help me out on this please.

Server Error in '/WebSite5' Application.

An operations error occurred.

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryServicesCOMException: An operations error occurred.

Source Error:

Line 22:         DirectorySearcher adsSearch = new DirectorySearcher(adsRoot);

Line 23:         strUser = Context.User.Identity.Name.ToString();
Line 24:         SearchResult sresult = adsSearch.FindOne();
Line 25:         if (sresult == null)
Line 26:             Response.Write("False");

Source File: c:\ProgrammingFiles\WebSite5\test.aspx.cs Line: 24

Stack Trace:

[DirectoryServicesCOMException (0x80072020): An operations error occurred.
]
   System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.Bind(Boolean throwIfFail) +634
   System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.Bind() +36
   System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.get_AdsObject() +31
   System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher.FindAll(Boolean findMoreThanOne) +73
   System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher.FindOne() +42
   test.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) in c:\ProgrammingFiles\WebSite5\test.aspx.cs:24
   System.Web.Util.CalliHelper.EventArgFunctionCaller(IntPtr fp, Object o, Object t, EventArgs e) +13
   System.Web.Util.CalliEventHandlerDelegateProxy.Callback(Object sender, EventArgs e) +45
   System.Web.UI.Control.OnLoad(EventArgs e) +80
   System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +49
   System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +3745

using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Collections;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
using System.DirectoryServices;

public partial class test : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
    {
        string strUser;
        DirectoryEntry adsRoot = new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://server/dc=abc,dc=com,ou=app-ckmaint");
        DirectorySearcher adsSearch = new DirectorySearcher(adsRoot);
        strUser = Context.User.Identity.Name.ToString();
        SearchResult sresult = adsSearch.FindOne();
        if (sresult == null)
            Response.Write("False");
        else
            Response.Write("True");
    }
}

Re: Checking if user is in group

i got it to work on localhost by changing the order around on the ldap connection but when moving it over to production i now get a similar error just on the Interop instead of DirectoryServices. Any ideas?

Server Error in '/' Application.

An operations error occurred.

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException: An operations error occurred.

Source Error:

Line 23:         strUser = Context.User.Identity.Name.ToString();

Line 24:         //adsSearch.Filter = "(member="+strUser+")";
Line 25:         SearchResult sresult = adsSearch.FindOne();
Line 26:         if (sresult == null)
Line 27:             Response.Write("False");

Source File: d:\intranet\test.aspx.cs Line: 25

Stack Trace:

[COMException (0x80072020): An operations error occurred.
]
   System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.Bind(Boolean throwIfFail) +610
   System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.Bind() +36
   System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.get_AdsObject() +31
   System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher.FindAll(Boolean findMoreThanOne) +73
   System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher.FindOne() +42
   test.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) in d:\intranet\test.aspx.cs:25
   System.Web.Util.CalliHelper.EventArgFunctionCaller(IntPtr fp, Object o, Object t, EventArgs e) +15
   System.Web.Util.CalliEventHandlerDelegateProxy.Callback(Object sender, EventArgs e) +34
   System.Web.UI.Control.OnLoad(EventArgs e) +99
   System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +47
   System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +1061

Re: Checking if user is in group

I will let Joe continue to help you on the other forum where you posted this.

Re: Checking if user is in group

Can you please paste the link to the forum where this was answered?

Thank you :)

Re: Checking if user is in group

it was a simple one line peice of code.

bool access = Context.User.IsInRole(@"DOMAIN\group");

this will return true or false depending on if the user your checking against is in the group or not