Microsoft KB Archive/263265

= Authentication Fails When You Try to Authenticate Users in the Members Subcontainer =

Article ID: 263265

Article Last Modified on 7/26/2002

-

APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Site Server 3.0 Standard Edition

-



This article was previously published under Q263265



SYMPTOMS
Authentication fails when you try to authenticate a user who is in a subcontainer of the Members container (for example, cn=user,ou=subcontainer,ou=Members,o=Organization).



CAUSE
This problem occurs because the ou=Members container is the default container that is used to store all members of a Personalization and Membership site. Many of the tools that are used with Site Server, such as the default Active User Object (AUO) provider, are configured to look in this container for members.



WORKAROUND
To authenticate a user who belongs to a subcontainer of the Members container, you must include the subcontainer name and the user name (for example, subcontainer/user).

If you want to keep the members in a different subcontainer, you must modify the AUO provider, or you must include the subcontainer name and the user name.

Additional query words: membership organizational unit

Keywords: kbprb KB263265

-

[mailto:TECHNET@MICROSOFT.COM Send feedback to Microsoft]

© Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.