AD / Forms authentication

Question

Hi,

I am developing an application that will mainly be used internally and want to know how i can automatically authenticate users against Active Directory without prompting them to login.

However, when a user is not automatically authenticated (i.e. they have connected via the internet) I want to display a form that will authenticate the user against AD

Can anyone help ?

Answer 1

In terms of ASP.NET you want to mix Windows and Forms Authentication. There is no simple solution. The possible workarounds are already discussed here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3184873/mixing-windows-authentication-with-forms-authentication