you are spot on mate, I'm trying this now and will let you know if I'm successful :), many thanks.

>if you were to turn off anonymous access to the intranet then within theory
>IE will be told to logon to the site, it will attempt to send the currently
>logged on user details to the site to authenticate.  If both the user is in
>the Active Dir and the site is (thus allowing access) then the username of
>that user should be available in the CGI.AUTH_USER field.  Then you could
>potentially pass this into the CFLDAP tag?
>
>HTH
>
>Mikey
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: cf coder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Friday, November 28, 2003 09:19
>To: CF-Talk
>Subject: Re:Can get coldfusion to call the ADSystemInfo com object (ADSI)
>
>
>I cannot use the cfldap tag to query the active directory because I would
>have to pass in the username to get the details for that user. To give you a
>background, I'm developing this site for the intranet, the users
>windows/computer account details are stored in the Active Directory. When
>the user logs in to his machine and enters his user name, AD does the
>authroisation. Now when he opens the link to the intranet site I want to get
>his details from somewhere and ADSystemInfo component does this for you
>(read this microsoft article:
>http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=""> >ter/scrguide/sas_srv_gwqy.asp). To use this component in ColdFusion its not
>that simple as I thought it would be, people have suggested using a wrapper
>class and I don't know how to code it unless somebody shows me the code.
>  _____  
>
>
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