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I have a new project coming up in the next week, and I need to figure out how to work with Active Directory.

I know how to do the link between my web site and Active directory... that part is fairly simple.

The biggest problem I have when doing things like this is as follows:

The site will be divided up into three parts for three groups. For this, we will call the groups "W", "X", "Y" and "Z".

The "W" group are considered guests and potentials and only have access to public files and areas.

The "X" group will have access to public files and only stuff to be seen by "X" people

The "Y" group will have access to public files and only stuff to be seen by "Y" people.

The "Z" group are admins and will have access to everything.

Some of the "X" group along with all of the "Z" group will be able to authenticate to active directory from their work station via windows authentication methods, however, should they choose to login to the site from home, they will have to login with their work "Windows" authentication methods.

Myself and another co-worker will be working on this. BUT, he's a C# developer and I'm not. I'm going to be needing to learn how to play with C#.

So any and all input and suggestions are valued (Psuedo Code will be fine for this as i need to learn how to do this for myself).

The biggest things I need to know are how to map out the data and how to limit the permissions to the previously mentioned groups: "W", "X", "Y" and "Z".

I will post my code here as I move along for you to view... I will also do what I can to start posting links and such for you to have a look at progression.

Thanks in advance.

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