I need to set up a test Active Directory where I can freely change users and groups. After MUCH troubles I manged to set up the AD-LDS itself in a way that seems realistic to my uninitiated eyes. I've created some users but can't for the life of me find out how to set a password.
My structure is like this.
- CN=MyApp,DC=ORPLE,DC=CH ... This is my Partition
- CN=Deleted Objects
- CN=LostAndFound
- CN=NTDS Quotas
- CN=Roles
- CN=Users
- CN=Groups
I've modeled some users after what I've seen in our real AD except I can't seem to get them to work with my Test Program (Find and Authenticate a user).
Now all the guides I've found on the internet say I need to set the Password with the ADSI Edit program. Which I've done. twice. But it still doesn't work
What am I missing?
Here's the Screenshot of the User I'm trying to authenticate. I've created it using Active Directory Explorer from Sysinternals. In ADSI Edit I've right clicked that user and used "Reset Password".
To Authenticate I'm using the a small program based on this MS KB article. It works when operating on our actual Active Directory but not when I direct my program to my local AD-LDS instance.
I've also followed this guide (from step 2 on) to create a new user and added it to the reader group. I then tried to connect to ADLDS in ADSI Edit using that user to confirm it was set up properly. But it didn't work.