Re: Copied Website windows authentication not working

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Steven,

An absolutely excellent response! Thank you!

Craig

"Steven Cheng[MSFT]" <stcheng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi Craig,
>
> Welcome to MSDN newsgroup.
> From your description, you've developed an ASP.NET 2.0 web application
> which use windows authentiation(against domain authority) so as to
> identify
> client users through their domain account. This works well on your
> development box but fails to authenticate the client user after moved to a
> deployment server, yes?
>
> Based on my understanding, when using build-in windows authentcation to
> authenticate client user through windows security authroity in asp.net
> application, it require us to configure the authentication setting in both
> our asp.net's web.config and the IIS's virtual directory....
>
> 1. In web.config, we should set the <authentication> 's mode to "windows",
> I think this should be ok in your application.
>
> 2. In IIS's application virtual directory, the authentication setting can
> be set through the "Directory Security" panel in the IIS
> manager(inetmgr.exe), please make sure that the IIS directory security
> (for our application) is configured as "Integrated windows authentication"
> and "Allow anonymous...." is unchecked....
>
> #How To: Use Windows Authentication in ASP.NET 2.0
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/paght000025.asp?frame=tr
> ue
>
> #Configuring Integrated Windows Authentication in IIS 6.0 (IIS 6.0)
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/5
> f8fe119-4095-4094-bba5-7dec361c7afe.mspx
>
> So I think you can first check the IIS virtual dir's diretory security
> setting to see whether integrated windows authentication is correctly
> configured.... Also, you can use
>
> HttpContext.Current.User to print out the current authenticated user info
> , this can help confirm whether the ASP.NET has correctly obtain the
> client
> windows identity from IIS.....
>
> If there're anything unclear or question, please feel free to post here.
>
> Regards,
>
> Steven Cheng
> Microsoft Online Support
>
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>
>
>
>
>
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> | From: "Crash" <crashmeister@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> | Subject: Copied Website windows authentication not working
> | Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:04:13 -0800
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> | Hello,
> |
> | I just used VS2005 to copy a new website to a staging server within our
> | network. The application uses Windows (AD) authentication. On my local
> | development machine, everything works fine, on the staging server,
> | User.Identity.IsAuthenticated does not return true, even though I am
> logged
> | in. I looked at the ASP.NET tab in IIS and it all appears to be correct
> | (but what do I know?).
> |
> | Any help as to why the authentication seems to not be working is greatly
> | appreciated!
> |
> | Thanks in advance,
> | Craig
> |
> |
> |
>


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