The site is simply a one page form with a submit button, basically a web form for employees to use for new user requests. On submit a specifically crafted email is sent to our ticketing system creating a ticket for the various IT groups involved in New User setups. The ticketing system sends an email to an "Authorized Manager" asking for approval for the request. The drop down list is a list of Authorized Managers. Currently the site is in prod, with a hard coded list of Authorized Managers, I am trying to improve it by using AD Security groups so that I don't have to manually maintain the list. Should I ditch the above code and try something else, or is there some way that I can salvage it? I am just a script monkey Sys Admin trying his hand at "actual" prgramming to improve process.

I am populating a drop down list from AD, which is working fine (The drop downlist is populated when I browse to the site.) The problem I am having is that when I later go to use that data with dropdownlist.SelectedItem.Text, nothing is returned. Any suggestions? Dim Groups1 As New DirectorySearcher Dim GroupSearchRoot1 As New DirectoryEntry("LDAP://OU=SomeOU,OU=SomeOU,OU=SomeOU,DC=SomeDomain,DC=SomeTopLevelDomain") With Groups1 .SearchRoot = GroupSearchRoot .Filter = "(&(ObjectClass=Group)(CN=SomeGroup))" End With Dim Members1 As Object = Groups1.FindOne.GetDirectoryEntry.Invoke("Members", Nothing) For Each Member As Object In CType(Members1, IEnumerable) Dim CurrentMember1 As New DirectoryEntry(Member) dropdownlist.Items.Add(CurrentMember1.Name.Remove(0, 3)) Some code to sort the dropdownlist alphabetically...

This article looks like it will be very useful for a variety of things.   Thanks for the link, it is now bookmarked. :) I am not seeing anywhere in it however that goes over getting the members of a group.   The part of the article linked above will return me all group memberships a specific user has if I am undestanding it right.   I have a group that contains three groups, and I want to populate the list box with the members of all three groups.   The code I posted above works fine if the group directly contains user accounts, but when I use it on a group that only contains groups, I get back the subgroups instead of the user accounts.

Once you have set a Static Address in the correct subnet double check the DHCP server to make sure there is no active lease for that address.   From the command line try running tracert to the DHCP server.   This should show you were the traffic is dying. There is a lot of missing information here.   Once you have a static address can you ping other resources?   Is your network driver installed properly?   Can you ping your default gateway?   Etc, Etc.

You have Everyone Set under Share permissions, what do you have for NTFS permissions on the folder?

Filezilla is great, but yes, you can use IIS.

I am attempting to populate a ListBox with the names of users that belong to an AD Distribution List.   This was working previously, but the scope of the site has changed and I now need to include multiple groups in this List Box.   I put the three groups into a new group, and changed my code to pull the members of that group.   The list box is now populated with the three subgroups instead of the members of each group. Here is the code I am using: Dim Groups As New DirectorySearcher             Dim GroupSearchRoot As New DirectoryEntry("LDAP://OU=Something,OU=Something,OU=Something,DC=Something,DC=Something")                         With Groups                                     .SearchRoot = GroupSearchRoot                   .Filter = "(&(ObjectClass=Group)(CN=SomeGroup))"             End With                         Dim Members As Object = Groups.FindOne.GetDirectoryEntry.Invoke("Members", Nothing)             For Each Member As Object In CType(Members, IEnumerable)                   Dim CurrentMember As New DirectoryEntry(Member)                   AuthMan.Items.Add(CurrentMember.Name.Remove(0, 3)) There is probably a very simple way to do this I am sure, but I am not thinking of it or finding it anywhere. Thanks in Advance, Norris