RE: Problem setting authentication modes on files under a virtual directory

From: Mike Moore [MS] (michmo@online.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/31/02 

From: michmo@online.microsoft.com ("Mike Moore [MS]")
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 01:27:38 GMT

Hi joel,

I must apologize. I forwarded your question to the attention of the wrong
person. We just got it straightened out, but it still may not be until
Friday when someone posts a technical response. My apologies again.

Thank you, Mike Moore
Microsoft, ASP.NET

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>Subject: Problem setting authentication modes on files under a virtual
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>Our web project needs to set all .aspx pages to use Basic
>authentication, and all .asmx pages to use Windows
>authentication (NTLM).
>
>When I try to use DirectoryEntry in
>System.DirectoryServices, I was not able to change the
>authentication mode of a file at the root level of a
>virtual directory. However, I was able to change the
>authentication mode of a file that is under a web
>directory in a virtual directory.
>
>For example, doing the following will throw an
>COMException : "System cannot find the path specified".
>String iisPath
>= "IIS://localhost/W3SVC/1/Root/Email/Service1.asmx");
>DirectoryEntry webService = new DirectoryEntry( iisPath ) ;
>webService.Properties["AuthNTLM"][0] = true;
>
>If I create a web directory under Email virtual directory,
>and open a web service file there, I was then able to set
>the authentication.
>String iisPath
>= "IIS://localhost/W3SVC/1/Root/Email/NewDir/Service1.asmx"
>);
>DirectoryEntry webService = new DirectoryEntry( iisPath ) ;
>webService.Properties["AuthNTLM"][0] = true;
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>Thanks,
>Joel
>