Hi,
I have set up a web site on a Windows 7 machine (Application PC), and have configured it to use Windows Authentication.
I have set up the User, and can access the site from a remote PC (Remote PC), logging in with the user name and password.
My main issue is that I cannot log into the web site when I am on the local machine. Regardless of the browser that I use.
I have noticed that when accessing from a remote machine the credentials use the machine name of the Remote PC, not the machine on which the application resides (This seemed strange to me, since the user is not set up on the Remote PC, it is set up on the Application PC. Maybe I don't understand Windows Auth properly).
So I log in with
<Machine name of remote PC>\UserName
<Password>
(Works).
If however I try to log in using the machine name of the Application PC as the domain, then authentication fails.
<Machine name of Application PC>\UserName
<Password>
(Fails).
So it follows that when I try to log on to the site using the browser on the local (Application PC), I can't log in.
Could someone explain, how I can log on on the local machine (I would have expected authentication to pass straight through when using Internet Explorer).
If you can help me understand why you use the machine name of the Remote PC, instead of the Application PC as a domain, that would be handy too.
Thanks