I need to know the best way to program a login page that will only
authenticate users when they click the login button at the top of our
page.  Once they are authenticated they will be able to go through the
process of ordering, etc.  I am not very well versed at ASP.NET but I

Hi NG
I am busy planning a new project for a client. This is my first ASP.NET app.
This will be an Intranet, therefore I am considering Windows Authentication.
However:

I've posted a similar question in the
microsoft.public.sqlserver.reportingsvcs group, but I need to solve
this and it is more of a .NET/permissions issue anyway.  However, it
is in the context of RS' forms authentication, which is making it more

I have a sub-directory named admin and when a user tries to access the page
inside "admin" folder I would like to use form authentication to validate the
user.  It says on many forums that I need the "admin" folder to be virtual
directory which is set as an application so I did.  ...

I'm using forms based authentication and LDAP to authenticate a user against
Active Directory.  This is working fine.
The  point where I'm stuck is retireving the groups this user is assigned.  
My web server and active directory servers are different machines.  When I

check out the machine settings in active directory users and computers.
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if you are impersonating depends on the impersonate=true/false switch in web.config.
trust for delegation is a active directory setting.
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I have been struggling with my ASP.NET (V1.1 sp1) websites getting an 'Access
Denied' message.
I have track down the problem (I think) to the IIS Connection Pools.  Most
MS Info suggests keeping the 'Identity' set as 'Network Service' to provide

i don't know if you are running on w2k3 or w2k and if you intend to impersonate or not...
here are the 2 scenarios
1. no impersonation
Your asp.net app runs under the ASPNET (wk2/xp) account or Network Server (w2k3). The local ASPNET account has no network credentials on another ...

I'm using Windows Authentication in my ASPNET application, but there is no
way to logoff user beside to close the browser because user is cached on
client side.
any solutions ??, help, please...

I have created a site shopping cart in ASP.net.
I am using ASP session object's SessionID on non SSL connection to track
session.
While adding products to cart DB I insert product and SessionID in table.

I'm trying to set basic form authentication on a webapp. I all access restricted to authenticated users. After changing the Web.config file in the app's root, I'm still not being redirected to the login page, I can freely access anything. Note that, although I have used forms ...

I am running Windows Server 2003, Visual Studio 2003 and SQL Server 2000. I created a simple data access page but I am getting the following error
Login failed for user 'NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE
Exception Details: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Login failed for user 'NT ...

I have a question:) I'm using the MD5CryptoServiceProvider class because I
encrypt the user's password when he/she opens the registration form. The
question is when a user creates for his/herself an account where does the
encryption commit? On the client side(his PC) or on the ...

I have written a Web Service that is called by a Windows Forms Client that I
have also written.
Some of our customers want to run with SSL and some don't.  The Windows
Forms client configuration file has an entry for the URL of the Web Service.