IIS Active directory and Vbulletin
 

I have a question that will be the desiding factor in my company purchasing vBulliten to replace the current BBS system (worldgroup), In this change will be moving to Exchange 2k3 to finish the network comfiguration that we want. I need to know if you can hack vBulliten to read the user name and password settings form the IIS webserver for the user authentication? We are wanting to impliment a seamless user interface for our site from the point you login to the point you hit the forums. Can the Vbulletin use the NTFS securty be able to authenticate the user name and password only......not the permissions form the board?

If PHP has the ability to access this IIS information, then it can be done.

NTFS security is only used for hard drive partitioning as I recall and PHP does not have access to this. You'd have to set up MySQL to work on an NTFS partition (although it can by default).

so can the php use the authentication on the IIS server?

Here is the senario.........

John goes to my site. He desides to go to his couse work that is IIS protected. The logs in and does his work. Then desides that he wants to go to the forums to talk to the faculty. He has to login there with a seperate user name and pass.

I dont want this........

When he logs into do his courses i want him to be able to then once logged into the protected part of the site to move seemlessly to the vBulletin.

has anyone been able to configure vbulletin to pull user authentication from the IIS users?

I hope this shows what i am wanting better.

Jesse

It can probably be done, but I cannot think of a hack that does this at the moment. This will require custom coding.