Sharepoint/WSS3 with Active Directories

been beating around this problem until I finally found a solution on the net that worked.

http://msmvps.com/blogs/obts/archive/2006/09/27/143831.aspx

near the bottom there’s reference to setting the default provider and using the tag in the providers. that seemed to get things going for me. I am not sure why I had to depend on finding solutions on the internet for something conceivably should be offered out of the box…