Hello I have a ASP.NET application. On the login page I see the scure lock symbol but as soon as I login the SSL lock disappers. The Autentication mode on the application is set to "windows". Can anyone please help. -- Praveena...more >>

Hi, I have reinstalled the win 2000 advance server with .net framework and with all the updates from MS site. After when i ran,my already running site, on login page it is not posting back my form to server. I am using ImnageButton to post the entered infromation for simple Form Authenticai...more >>

I need to find a form of encryption that always encrypts a given plain text string to the exact same encrypted string every time. I want to use a form of output caching in my ASP.NET application that will use a cached version of a web page if the query string parameters are exact each time. If...more >>

Hi, We have a very large AD here and I am noticing that the WindowsPrinciple IsInRole function is taking upwards of 1 second to respond with just a single user. I am assuming that this function re-queries the AD everytime. When it reaches about 50 users each query is taking > 10 seconds. Is t...more >>

when I configure the sample of the .net framework, the browser list this message .,? Directory Listing Denied This Virtual Directory does not allow contents to be listed. ...more >>

The LDAP is located on the mainframe. I can successfully select records using some ASP (Classic) script. I choose to use ASP classic because there are very few examples I could find of using the directory services other than the MS AD. Anywho, as I said I can select the LDAP record usin...more >>

Hello all! I'm working with the following code.. Function DBAuthenticate(ByVal strUsername As String, ByVal strPassword As String) As Integer Dim conLogin As SqlConnection Dim cmdSelect As SqlCommand Dim parmReturnValue As SqlParameter Dim intResult As In...more >>

Hi. I'm using the dpapi to encrypt a sql server connection string. Strictly speaking how many bytes of entropy am I supposed to use?? Phil Czapla Boston, Massachusetts ...more >>

He everybody, I have a question. I would like to know the following question: How can I find out how many users were loginned to my web project. I need to get the count of the sessions in the project because and I need to get datas from the different sessions. Who knows what I can do? Thank...more >>

I have an asp.net application that uses windows authentication. We need to loosely integrate another web application (written in cold fusion - hosted on another server) with my app (Loosely = provide a link to their app and they will link to ours). Both systems use the same user information so...more >>

I have been using web.mail to send messages behind the scenes (actually in my Windows based apps). Since people have been adding various security and firewall tools some of them have blocked the background email traffic. What port is used for sending the email? Is there anything in partic...more >>

I have an intranet site that uses authentication mode="Windows" with identity impersonate="true". I recently implemented a site search feature that uses server.execute to retrieve dynamic content for the search. Unfortunately, Server.execute retrieves pages that the user can not access. The pag...more >>

I am in a situation where text files will be produced in a java/unix environment and need to be encrypted before they are sent over via ftp to a windows/.net environment. If they are encrypted with say Triple DES at the Unix end would I have any problems decrypting them at the windows end usin...more >>

Hi, How to disable/enable "Inherit from parent the permissions entry that apply to child objects. include these with entries explicity defined here." from script or from vb.net. Thanks for help. Regards, Darko Bazulj...more >>

Hello, I am trying to automatically login to websites after I have used SSO to get the credentials. For my test, I am working with my Yahoo account. The code that I am using is code that many have said works fine. I have done some tweaking to fit my specific needs. The Problem is when I po...more >>

Hi all, My ASP.NET intranet web application uses windows authentication. It has to support both IE and Mozilla browsers so I am forced to allow Basic Authentication for Mozilla users. Because of some intranet configuration issues I cannot use the Digest Authentication. I would like to prote...more >>

Its just being inconsistent. I'm in 3 different Groups in AD. ..IsInRole("Groupx") returns true ..IsInRole("Groupy") returns true ..IsInRole("Groupz") returns FALSE All of these groups reside in the same location in my AD tree, but for some reason, the one is returning False. even st...more >>

I have an ASP.net web site that accesses a COM object remotely, but I have to use the 'basic authentication' and not 'Integrated Windows authentication', else I get an access denied error. The web.config has <authentication mode="Windows" /> <identity impersonate="true"/> ...more >>

hi all! i have a problem regarding the windows identity. i instantiate windows identity passing the upn (user principal name). Unable to log on error was encountered. I don't know if i miss somthing with config settings of our domain controller or the active directory. please advice. ...more >>

Hi guys - I've been getting knotted up with this for a few days now. Originally I was in an ASP.NET context (using VFP8 OleDB to access tables located on a network fileshare from inside of ASP.NET) but after much simplification and reduction, I've reduced my question to a simple .NET consol...more >>

Hi, Looks like i have variables that are exposed in the address bar... I was able to enter a value in the address bar and get to a page that is only supposed to be viewed by a site admin.. How to I remove the variables from showing on the address bar? R...more >>