Folks,
I'm desperately trying to understand code access security. MSDN and
VS.NET help files explains the concepts in details but the code
snippets does not help to put the whole picture together.

I build a asp.net web application to update user accounts in Active
Directory (AD). This application works fine on my test server when I
acces the web application on the server it self and update an user
account (using an administrator account).

I'm using forms Auth!
Why am i getting the error:-I HAVE DONE EVRYTHING NEEDED!
Error authenticating. Error obtaining group names. The specified domain
either does not exist or could not be contacted.

I am using forms Auth on my WEB APP. I am checking the credentials in sql
server. When a user request any page other than login.aspx they get the page.
Shouldn't they be forwarded first to the Login.aspx? This is a section of my
web.config file

I am keeping all the images out of the webserver. This is in some other
system in the network. Can anybody please give me workaround in asp.net, like
how to access folder from a remote machine in the same network. Pls give the
shortest way to do this. It fails to access folder ...

Part 1:
I have a simple web service.  I would like to protect the web
application by only allowing callers that have a client-side
certificate installed.  How can I do that programmatically?  I have no

I want to run the batch file from the asp.net
web(intranet)application. The batch files works fine if it has some
copy or del command, eventhough i could not see the command window.
But if the batch file has some application for e.g., Notepad,it seems

    Can anybody here kindly forward me a sample of a
Role based forms Authentication using Acitve Directory?
Thanks alot.
P

I want to read the Elements of the Subject of a client certificate sent to a
Web Service via HTTPS. This can be done by the following code segment...
[WebMethod]
public string echoCert()

We a Web application that has been running for months, but suddenly (i.e.
over the weekend) stopped working.
To narrow down the problem, I wrote the followng page_load handler in an
ASP.Net test application:

I have been fighting with impersonation for quite sometime now and now
matter what I have tried it just won't work.
I am trying to get information on two items:
1)    I'd like to retrieve a file listing from a directory on our file

We are currently deploying an ASP.Net intranet application to our WAN. The
application uses integrated Windows authentication. At present, each time
there is a post-back, our code gets the user’s credentials and queries to see
whether the user is a member of certain Active ...

I'm using Form Auth.
I 'm using the FormsAuthentication.SignOut() to sign out
But when the user logins in and later logs out using
FormsAuthentication.SignOut()

How did a user account get on my computer of ASP.net with a password
protected accoubt and what do I do with it or how do I deal with it??

How did a user account get on my computer.(windows xp) and what or how so I
deal with it