How can I authenticate to a domain?

Question

I've got a windows server which runs our team foundation server and my self written .NET-Webservice. The windows server acts inside of a domain. My webserver gets now the username and password for other computers inside of the domain. How can I authenticate them on my webservice? I want that only users, which are part of the domain, are able to work with the webservice.

Answer 1

If you get the username and password as parameter to the API you can use the method described here:

Validate a username and password against Active Directory?

If it is a IIS hosted Application you can configured it in the web.config (windows authentication)