Pro'lly no one knows this, but we're desperate...

Is anyone familiar with running VBScript on an IIS server, with the following code being executed on the server:

set objUser = GetObject("WinNT://MEI-NT/someuserid,user")

In addition to setting up the objUser object, this automatically calls up a Windows authentication dialog thingie, where the user has to enter his ID and password. This is authenticated using Active Directory. The problem is our client changed their authentication server to bring it up to Windows 2003 standards (or something). This broke the GetObject("WinNT://MEI-NT/someuserid,user") function- the server returns a "Permission Denied" error for that line.

Anyway, is anyone familiar with this stuff?

eta: The main IT guy at the client's says he doesn't think it's a permissions issue. Nonetheless, we're trying to set up a site that runs under Administrator, to see if it at least works there....

I would agree with your client's main IT guy. I'm betting that the directory structure changed with the upgrade.

Ah. Win2003 tightens security a bit. It does not allow "2-hop" authentication - i.e. from a user to another server to the authentication server. It only authenticates for users connecting directly.

So, we've seen a recommended workaround and now we're playing with stuff along the lines of:

Set objUser = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationlevel=delegate,authority=kerberos:DC1}")

We don't understand winmgmts (WMI) much at all so we haven't gotten it to work yet.

interesting. Thanks for the update.

Awhile ago I mentioned thinking it would be neat if Opera could read the threadsuck to me, so I make a python script to make the suck more Opera reading friendly.

import sgmllib, string, sys


class StrippingParser(sgmllib.SGMLParser):


    # These are the HTML tags that we will leave intact
    valid_tags = ('b', 'i', 'br', 'p')
    skip = 0
    name = 0


    from htmlentitydefs import entitydefs # replace entitydefs from sgmllib
    
    def __init__(self):
        sgmllib.SGMLParser.__init__(self)
        self.result = ""
        self.endTagList = [] 
        
    def handle_data(self, data):
        if data and self.name == 1:
            self.result = self.result + data
        elif data and self.skip == 0:
            self.result = self.result + data


    def handle_charref(self, name):
        self.result = "%s&#%s;" % (self.result, name)
        
    def handle_entityref(self, name):
        if self.entitydefs.has_key(name): 
            x = ';'
        else:
            # this breaks unstandard entities that end with ';'
            x = ''
        self.result = "%s&%s%s" % (self.result, name, x)
    
    def unknown_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
        """ Delete all tags except for legal ones """
        if tag == 'p' and self.getClass(attrs) == 'normal-text':
            self.skip = 1
            endTag = '' % tag
            self.endTagList.insert(0,endTag)
        elif tag in self.valid_tags:
            if tag == 'p':
                self.skip = 0
            self.result = self.result + ''
        elif tag == 'blockquote':
            self.result = self.result + 'Start Quote '
        elif self.getClass(attrs) == 'nametext':
            self.result = self.result + '
New Post By '
            self.skip = 1
            self.name = 1
        elif tag == 'span':
            self.skip = 1


    def getClass(self, attrs):
        returnValue = ''
        for k,v in attrs:
            if k == 'class':
                returnValue = v
        return returnValue
                
    def unknown_endtag(self, tag):
        if tag in self.valid_tags:
            self.result = "%s" % (self.result, tag)
            remTag = '' % tag
            self.endTagList.remove(remTag)
        elif tag == 'blockquote':
            self.result = self.result + 'End Quote '
        elif self.name == 1 and tag == 'span':
            self.name = 0
        elif tag == 'span':
            self.skip = 0
            
    def cleanup(self):
        """ Append missing closing tags """
        for j in range(len(self.endTagList)):
                self.result = self.result + self.endTagList[j]    
        


def strip(s):
    """ Strip illegal HTML tags from string s """
    parser = StrippingParser()
    parser.feed(s)
    parser.close()
    parser.cleanup()
    return parser.result


file = open(sys.argv[1], 'r')
content = file.read()
file.close()
stripped = strip(content)
file = open(sys.argv[2], 'w')
file.write('Stripped Suck')
file.write(stripped)
file.write('')
file.close()

It could probably be more elegant, but it's the first time I've used python and it was pretty quick and dirty. Anyhow, the first argument is the input file (a threadsuck saved to disk) and the second argument is the output file (an html file). I only use Opera for listening to web text, for some reason I just like the way Firefox works better.

I have a TV. It is new (this year). I have four options for Closed Captioning, C1, C2, T1 and T2. C1 works for TV. The thing I can't figure out is how to get the closed captioning on DVD's that do not have subtitles. For example, Reefer Madness claims to be closed captioned for the deaf, as does Veronics Mars, and people keep telling me to "use the captioning through my TV". But I can't get it to work.

Unfortunately, I have no idea what make or model my TV is.

Does anyone have any idea (I have tried each option in sucession and that did not work)

Hi. I'm sure this question has been asked numerous times in this thread, but now it's finally my turn!

What digital camera should I buy? Where should I get it? My price range is $200-$300, and I would prefer one that can do video too.

So. How can an IIS server query a Windows Authentication server to get the expiration date of a user's password?

Firefox question: Is it possible to end up at the same place on the page where I started from, when I hit the back button?