Folks,

I've inherited some C++ code that I'm trying to convert from VC++ 6.0 to
VC++ 2005 and was wondering if anyone could help as I haven't done any C++
programming in several years.

The code is basically trying to populate a struct that is defined in the
sspi.h file. The compile error that I'm getting is "error C2440:
'initializing' cannot convert from wchar_t* to unsigned short*".

Here is the code to populate the struct:

const wchar_t* pszAuthority
const wchar_t* pszPrincipal
const wchar_t* pszPassword

SEC_WINNT_AUTH_IDENTITY_EX authIdent = {
       SEC_WINNT_AUTH_IDENTITY_VERSION,
       sizeof authIdent,
       const_cast<wchar_t*>(pszPrincipal), //*****Compilie error here******
       lstrlenW(pszPrincipal),
       const_cast<wchar_t*>(pszAuthority), //*****Compilie error here******
       lstrlenW(pszAuthority),
       const_cast<wchar_t*>(pszPassword),  //*****Compilie error here*****
       lstrlenW(pszPassword),
       SEC_WINNT_AUTH_IDENTITY_UNICODE,
       0,
       0};

The struct is defined as follows in the sspi.h header file

#define SEC_WINNT_AUTH_IDENTITY_EX  SEC_WINNT_AUTH_IDENTITY_EXW

typedef struct _SEC_WINNT_AUTH_IDENTITY_EXW {
   unsigned long Version;
   unsigned long Length;
   unsigned short SEC_FAR *User;
   unsigned long UserLength;
   unsigned short SEC_FAR *Domain;
   unsigned long DomainLength;
   unsigned short SEC_FAR *Password;
   unsigned long PasswordLength;
   unsigned long Flags;
   unsigned short SEC_FAR * PackageList;
   unsigned long PackageListLength;
} SEC_WINNT_AUTH_IDENTITY_EXW, *PSEC_WINNT_AUTH_IDENTITY_EXW;

I guess the question is what is the best way to "cast" a wchar_t* to a
unsigned short* so that it will compile and run correctly? Any help or
feedback would be greatly appreciated.