You're going to have to use a cookie-based authentication method on the sharepoint server to get around the need to pass credentials explicitly. Microsoft has one in the "IIS Resource Kit" that you can use for free. I can't give you to the full details on how this works at the moment, but I have seen this exact idea (Single-sign on) work using this method.
- Matt Small >So I have a general query. My boss has asked me to see if its >possible and the degree of difficulty on basically being able to take >login information and authenticate the credentials against the active >directory server and then if its true, then to pass all that info to a >sharepoint server to automatically log them into the sharepoint >server. The problem is the CF server is not sitting on the same >server as the Sharepoint server. I'm guessing there will be some use >of web services involved but I'm not familiar enough with sharepoint >to understand if there's a possibility to talk to the API via CF or not. > >Does that make any sense? If so, does anyone have any advice or code >samples? > >-Phi ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:310921 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
