Directory Programming .NET

Hi,

I need to read some custom attributes from ADAM without authenticating the user using a .net application. The authentication with ADAM needs to be skipped as the user has already logged into the machine and has been authenticated. I would like to know if this is possible ? If yes how it can be achieved ?

Thanks
Sam

It can be done if the process that needs to access ADAM is running as a domain account in a domain that the ADAM server has a trust relationship with and ADAM is also running under a domain service account like Network Service. If this is the case, then authentication should work using Windows auth with default credentials. You'll need to also configure ADAM to authorize the read requests. This is frequently done by adding authenticated users to the readers role in ADAM.