[1] tells well known (see, for. ex, also [2], etc) fact that upon installation, i.e. in workgroup, a Windows has LocalSystem (SYSTEM) account which: "The LocalSystem account is a predefined local account that has extensive privileges on the local computer. This account is only available to system processes and does not have a pass...
Reposting my unanswered in technet.microsoft question? MSDN "ASP.NET Delegation" article tells: 1) "When you configure to use a particular account as the process identity, ASP.NET attempts to delegate that account. If it is a local account that is identical (including password) to a local account on a remote machine, delegation i...
[1] tells: "When you configure to use a particular account as the process identity, ASP.NET attempts to delegate that account. If it is a local account that is identical (including password) to a local account on a remote machine, delegation is possible. If such an account does not exist on the remote machine, to the network it appe...
First off, The Problem: We have a Web App with a Flash front-end that talks to our ASP.NET web service via SOAP which then deals with all of our server side code (C#). Right now, we implement a simple user sign on in our application, storing the info in our MSSQL DB. A client has requested what I understand to be Windows authenticati...
My feeling says it's not posible but anyway I am curious if there is at least a workaround for accomplish this. Basically I am working at my client site and my machine is not connected to the domain. What I want to do is running a web application locally under a domain account, and using the webdev server. The webapp uses the default au...
I Use windows authentication with profile and wanted to flip to a custom authentication. My question is How can I specify that my user is authenticated and how to set the Profile.UserName. I Know the Profile.UserName is ReadOnly . In my Web.Config, i change the authentication mode="None" and configure IIS to enabled Anonymous. In the...
I am using Microsoft SQL Server 2008. While generating custom reports, I need to provide specific parameters based on the logged in user. That's why my app requires a table for users with their ids, so that I can join whatever else I want with them. The problem starts when I inspect the results of querying Master..SysUsers. My NT user is...
Hi All, I have configured active directory. Also I have several computers joined the domain. I have wcf service hosted in IIS. The service uses wsHttpBinding. I need to configure the wcf service and client to use windows authentication with kerberos. Also I do not plan to use ssl. (is kerberos part of active directory or I need to ins...
I'm in the process of pulling a classic ASP app into Mvc2. I'll be deploying to an intranet and have been asked to enable support for Windows Authentication. The network I'll be deploying to has a few AD Domains and I'll only need to integrate with one in particular. Is it possible to use Windows Authentication and only allow authenticat...
Hi, I have active directory and several client computers joined the active directory. In the client computers I have installed wcf clients. On the server the wcf service is hosted in IIS. I use message secyrity with windows credentials. Everything is working fine. But I have heard that there are some programs than can extract the pa...
Can you please post a small explanation of the prerequisites of using Windows Authentication? I know that you have to turn Windows Authentication on from web.config or IIS and define domain. Does the web server have to be connected to the Active Directory server or not, and how to get user info from Active Directory like name and desc...
I'm relatively new to using IIS 7. I'm getting confused by the various options that IIS 7 provides. What does setting authentication mode="Windows" do in the web.config of my ASP.net site do? What does enabling Windows authentication in the Authentication module in IIS 7 do? What is the difference between these two? Does one override ...
We have an ASP site using Windows authentication to connect to a SQLServer database. There are three instances of the web site, a Dev environment (located on my Workstation), an UAT environment and a production environment, which are on separate servers. When I access the Dev site (which uses the same DB as the UAT site) I have no issue...
How do you back-door authenticate Windows users into a website using forms authentication running on IIS 7.0? ...
I am using Windows Authentication in asp.net every thing is ok in local but when deploying on different system of same domain then its working getting error in this line SearchResult userObject = adSearcher.FindOne(); Error system.runtime.interopservice.comException My code is WindowsIdentity winId = id as WindowsIdentity; if...