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Our developers have recently built a new internal 'image viewer' application for our staff to use. The image viewer runs as a website and uses Active Directory to authenticate the user and control what type of images that user is allowed to view.

I have this setup and working fine by running the website as an impersonated domain user. The problem I now face is that all the images are held on a non-domain share. How can I access this share using the domain user? The share is on a Novell Netware 6.5 server.

Alternatively I can run the website as a non-domain user and connect to the Netware server to retrieve the images, but then I am unable to query Active Directory.

Can I allow a non-domain user access to query AD? I don't wish to allow anonymous queries on my domain controllers.

Shannon Wagner
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No, a non-domain user cannot query Active Directory unless you configure your domain to allow anonymous queries.

Depending on how everything is setup in the web application, you may be able to insert some code to switch security contexts and impersonate a domain user at the point where the query happens.

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