Newbie: Authenticate Against Windows Active Directory and XA

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Is there a way to have users silently authenticate against a windows domain, while using Xampp. (assuming IE has already been configured to pass credentials when in the local network).

I know there are a number of Apache modules that might work for this (e.g mod_auth_ldap), but I'm not sure exactly how to go about integrating them with Xampp.

Right now we're using a regular apache install, with mod_ntlm, (and a jerry-rigged collection of different modules custom installed). However I've been told mod_ntlm will no longer work when we upgrade our network to 2003 Server Native mode. Since XAMPP has almost everything we need besides an authetication module, it would be great to be able to just add this one piece.

Thanks in advance for your help!

I'm somewhat new to Linux, so I might have missed something obviouse!