I'm setting up a linux firewall for my companies T1.  All of our other machines
will be windoze. I also need to setup a Windows VPN server (can't use the linux
clients for reasons I can't get into here).
1) Someone suggested to me that I put the VPN in the linux DMZ and foward the

I've created a web site using plain old asp (not asp.net).  How do I got
about setting it up to require the user to logon using their domain
credentials before they can start to use the app?  Any url's to material
would be great.   Thx

I am using Forms Authentication and it is working just great...someone tries
to access a form without logging in, they get routed to my login screen.
However, how do I implement logging out? I have a logout menu option where I
want to fire and ASPX page that does...what? What to do ...

In my application I would like to to be able to upload
files to a specified directory on the server. I specify
the files in the app settings section of the web.config
file.

I want to generate a key pair for use in Across Application Authentication.
Are there any utilities included with VS.Net that will generate a key pair
that I can use?
validationKey=?

I have a problem with FormsAuthentication:
I have two web applications:
   http://localhost/bx/authentication
   http://localhost/myapp

For ASP.Net application we can use Five IIS authentication
settings viz. Basic,Integrated Windows, Certificate,
Anonymous & Digest.
Now my Question is out of these 5 which all authentication

Is there a way to make my intranet web application NOT automatically
use the logged in user when using the "Windows" authentication mode?
I want to force the windows popup to always appear, prompting them for
a user name and password (with domain name already filled in for them,

i have a problem with database access (SQL Server/MSDE) on my production
server.
the asp.net web app works fine in test.
on the production server, it won't connect to the database!

I have read that you can have have multiple web.config files but some tags
including <authentication> can only be present in the root one.
but our applictaion is used by 3 different kinds of users.
so we have 1 virtual directory and 3 folders, 1 for each type of user.

I am in the process of writing a fairly large ASP.NET web application and I
am about to implement log-ons, permissions etc. I have never used any
security with ASP.NET before; only classic ASP.
I would like to base my user's logon information and permissions on their

I have a couple of SSL questions.
First:
If I would like to protect my entire website by ensuring that all pages are
accessed using SSL (https://)

Forgive me for cross-posting, I'm desperated.
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Client machine: Win2K server SP4 with both .NET framework 1.0 & 1.1
installed. VB.NET app developed using an XP Pro with VS.NET 2003 / .NET

I'm working on single signon for multiple web apps on a single domain.  If I
authenticate in wepApp1 then I am authenticated in webApp2 however, anywhere
in the global.asax code of  webApp2 the following don't seem to be
set/initialized:

 I have an ASP.NET web service running on a Windows 2000
Server (WHICH IS NOT A DOMAIN CONTROLLER). Since I wanted
to access a remote database on my intranet , I set up my
ASp.NET worker process(aspnet_wp.exe) to run under a