Re: URGENT!! Windows Authentication Problem

From: Yama (yama@yamabiz.com)
Date: 02/20/03

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    From: "Yama" <yama@yamabiz.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 11:59:32 -0800

    Hello Matthew,

    Try changing, in your web.config, the following line:

    <authentication mode="Windows" />

    to:

    <authentication mode="Forms" />

    Hope this solves your problem,

    Yama Kamyar

    "Matthew E Creegan" <mecreegan@attbi.com> wrote in message news:OcNlPSE2CHA.1636@TK2MSFTNGP10...
    > I have a simple ASP.net Application that contains a few pages to expose data
    > stored in a database.
    > I want to use Windows Authentication to restrict acccess to the application.
    > The entire application seems to have been problem free for the past 2 weeks.
    > Now it seems that users can't log in from the internet. I can view the
    > application perfectly from within the domain.
    > Now when users hit the application from the internet, they get the Windows
    > login dialog (as usual), which seems to accept credentials properly, but the
    > default page can't be displayed.
    > I have 2 sites running on the webserver, so I figured I'd try putting the
    > application on the other site. It actually works perfectly there. There
    > doesn't see to be anything wrong with the first site, as other applications
    > seem to be working fine.
    > Despite all this, I'm still thinking it's an authentication issue because if
    > I remove <deny users="?"> from the authorization in the web.config then the
    > application works fine over the internet, except that the users are not
    > forced to authenticate (not an acceptable solution).
    >
    > Anyone have any ideas what went wrong?
    >
    > Thanks.
    >
    > MEC
    >
    >

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