We are trying to use a P12 certificate to access a secure website using .NET
1.1
We have installed the cert and exported it as an X509.
We have also used the winhttpcertcfg utility to add IWAM permissions for it.

We are changing from using SQL accounts in our connection string to use NT
domain accounts. I have found some coe which I am using successfully on my
local machine, because the installed account ie; MachineName\ASPNET is what I
use in my VS2005 environment and this works great ...

How to maintain session across applications for authenticating purposes

I'm trying to use XMLHTTP to do an out of band call for the contents of
a drop down. Basically a user selects an item from a drop down, and the
onchange event fires an XMLHTTP request to the server for the contents
of a dependent drop down (in this case, the first drop down is

I would appreciate some pointers to the correct place to start learning
how to achieve the following:
1. I have a web service (SOAP) that needs to be authenticated prior to use.
2. The authentication is of the form: login and password

Can anyone tell me if is is possible to override how a web application stores/retrieves the Access Rules for roles?  Instead of using the web.config to store the following:
<system.web>
   <authorization>
       <allow roles="Admin" />

I am attempting to get a list of the security groups a specific user is
a member of when logging into our applications.  After finding many
methods, I settled on the preferred suggested method of using an
IdentityReferenceCollection within the .NET 2.0 frame work.  This works

Is there a article or example on using DirectoryService to get all the groups
in Active Directory.

I have a SiteMap-based application that has custom role/membership
providers.  The app logs in with the custom membership provider with no
problems, but for some reason, none of my role provider methods get called
when trimming the sitemap.  If I put in roles="*" for a node, it's ...

How do I create, delete (and so on) users on a site thats been deployed to a
produktion server where the Website Administration Tool is not available?
Any help appreciated.
J. Jespersen

i am trying to impersanate a remote user on a workgroup(NOT Domain) account.
This does not seem to work. Only works for domain or local user. Anyone have
any ideas.
Thanks

I got thes error below complaining about “Personal” certificate store was
not found, but it was there as seen on the certmgr.msc screen.  Any idea what
I may have missed.  This certificate is the one that I recently received from
Root Authority and it is stored in “Personal” ...

In ASP.NET 2.0, forms authentication, Is there an event that is fired
every time a user is authenticated? I can easily trap every time a user
logs in via the login control, but this neglects to capture the times
the user is automatically logged in via a persistent cookie.

I'm trying to use the new 2.0 functionality with users and roles. It all
works fine on my dev machine, but as soon as I deploy and test logging in on
the server, the login always fails. Very strange indeed! Here's a part of my
web.config:

I am a newbie to the security framework of .net and to digital
signatures, and I need some help regarding signing files in .net.
Here's my problem: I have a web application developed in asp.net (with
.net framework 1.1). This web app has a support database and can access