couldnt connect to active directory on windows 2019 server-CodePudding

I am working on active directory and was reading this https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/adsi/setting-up-c---for-adsi-development and just used the mentioned code to connect to it but its not connecting to the server and says proccess exited with status code zero

i used the below code.

#include "stdafx.h"
#include "activeds.h"

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
    HRESULT hr;
    IADsContainer *pCont;
    IDispatch *pDisp=NULL;
    IADs *pUser;

     // Initialize COM before calling any ADSI functions or interfaces.
     CoInitialize(NULL);

    hr = ADsGetObject( L"LDAP://CN=users,DC=fabrikam,DC=com", 
                               IID_IADsContainer, 
                               (void**) &pCont );

    if ( !SUCCEEDED(hr) )
    {
        return 0;
    }


}

what am i doing wrong i did exactly as the documentation told

CodePudding user response：

ADsGetObject is for non authenticated connection that is the code should be performed inside the server. if you are trying to connect to a server hosted on seperate machine you should be using ADsOpenObject you may have the reference in the following link https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/adshlp/nf-adshlp-adsopenobject ADsOpenObject binds using explicit username and password you can try the following

int login(LPCWSTR uname, LPCWSTR pass)
{

    HRESULT hr;
    IADsContainer* pCont;
    IDispatch* pDisp = NULL;
    IADs* pUser;

    // Initialize COM before calling any ADSI functions or interfaces.
    CoInitialize(NULL);

    hr = ADsOpenObject(L"LDAP://machinename.domaincontroller.domain/CN=Users,DC=domaincontrollername,DC=domainname", uname, pass,
        ADS_SECURE_AUTHENTICATION, // For secure authentication
        IID_IADsContainer,
        (void**)&pCont);
    std::cout << hr << std::endl;
    std::string message = std::system_category().message(hr);
    std::cout << message << std::endl;
    if (!SUCCEEDED(hr)) {
        return 0;
    }
    else {
        return 1;
    }
}

instead of the variable you can type your username and password like L"usernameexample"