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Alexandru
Alexandru

Reputation: 12912

How do you validate Windows user credentials on a different machine over a WiFi or LAN network?

I am on machine "MACHINEA" in my WiFi or LAN network, and am trying to authenticate a user with username "testusername" and password "testpassword" on machine "MACHINEB" in my WiFi network. I don't have a domain controller on this network. I want to validate credentials on a regular machine, just because it is visible on the network. I would like a solution or suggestion in C#, but I am open to other suggestions in other languages if I can fork into a different process that can return a value to me in a different language (if possible, please explain how I could do this as well).

Upvotes: 0

Views: 923

Answers (1)

Neil
Neil

Reputation: 55402

I don't know what the equivalent in C# is but in C you can do this using the WNetAddConnection2 function. Note that this requires that you don't already have a connection to the computer, and that the computer is configured for authentication (i.e. simple file sharing is turned off.) You don't need to specify a local name for the connection.

Upvotes: 1

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