Hello, I would like to access to Windows Service via ASP.NET. I have written very simple web application which starts and stops windows service. Here is my StarButton event: private void StartButton_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e) { ServiceController sc = new ServiceController(...more >>

Sorry for the dup post but looking for a response and this is being posted under my MSDN managed newsgroups handle and in a different newsgroup Hi, As I said in the past post I am using this Article http://msdn.microsoft.com/security/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/paght000026....more >>

Is there a way to use only "Windows Integrated authentication" but not have the pop up window at all? even when the webapplication is requested for the first time. Thanks, Stephen ...more >>

I am having much the same problem as Eric from the thread 'Rendering in-memory images from UNC file share', unfortunately I couldn't find a reply button on his thread. I have a NAS device which stores all my images, I have a asp.net page which access these images and displays them. I am work...more >>

Hi, I'm using the walkthrough described in http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnnetsec/html/SecNetHT02.asp and I followed step by step. However, when I try with a valid AD account/password combination the code always throws an exception in the line Objec...more >>

I've been baffled by this for awhile now. I have a simple site set up to use Windows Authentication, with an allow="*" and deny="?" to allow only domain users. The web server is Win2003 and is not exposed to the internet. If I access the site with the URL http://myserver/mysite/, I can acce...more >>

Is it useful at all to use Apache as a reverse proxy server to redirect to an IIS server? I've seen some articles on doing this for security purposes, is this necessary? ...more >>

Hello everyone! We are developing a webshop in asp.net. We did not want to use cookies for session management, so we tried cookieless sessions. This changes the URL requested to something like http://.../WebApplication3/(xwa4n4a3cr45h2idog25v355)/WebForm1.aspx Well, this -> (xwa4n...more >>

Hello. Is there a way to retrieve the password of the user that was authenticated using Basic Authentication? What if the user was authenticated using Integrated Windows Authentication? Thanks in advance, Mike ...more >>

Hi All, Sorry to crosspost but it's a security and an ASP.NET problem I have. We run each website site under it's own I_<user> account and ASP.NET is configured to impersonate so requests run under the identity of the I_<user> account. In windows 2000 server how do I prevent a user from c...more >>

hi how can i know the expiry date for users PASSWORD in active directory ? i want to detect the date to notify the user about ? am using Asp.net with C# in my application .. So can you please tell me how ? ...more >>

I would appreciate any help with the following error. I'd like to mention that application works on my Dev server no problems at all but not on the 3d party host server (they saying it's coding problem). ===================================== Server Error in '/' Application ------------------...more >>

I am trying to generate and to consume a file RSS dinamicamente. I generate it correctly, if I call from the explorer (http://localhost/Prueba/rss.aspx) or an application client RSS Bandit, for example, everything works costraight. But if I want to load "http://localhost/Prueba/rss.aspx" in a...more >>

I'm using the following code in my login.aspx page to validate a user. The FormsAuthentication.RedirectFromLoginPage(cUser,bPersistent) gets called but login.aspx gets redisplayed instead of returning to the calling page. If I change the address line in IE to the calling page I can see the new us...more >>

Hello out there, Is there a place where I can find documentation on how this control actually works? I am trying to provide a list of valid users who can log in as well as provide the name of a form that should be accessed if login is successful. TIA ...more >>

hi, i m trying to get html from a website using asp.net. i wrote following code to access html of a website. it works fine but whenever i try this code from network (behind proxy server) , it gives me error " The underlying connection was closed: Unable to connect to the remote server". i d...more >>

Hi, I would like to programatically modify the security setting of folder. I am using Windows XP professional OS and C# as programming language.I am using WMI(Windows Management instrumentation) for that. I got a head start through a code that i got from Internet. Using WMI i w...more >>

I am using HttpWebRequest to access a WebLogic web servce. It is currently in a console app, but will be 'elevated' to a service. The code is pretty standard, but I get the dreaded WebException: The underlying connection was closed: Could not establish secure channel for SSL/TLS It uses 2-...more >>

I'm experimentating with Integrated Windows authentication and am puzzled by certain aspect of the native pop-up logon dialog box. After all the setup, everything seems to work as expected: when logon to the domain, the dialog box does not show; when logon outside the domain the dialog box ...more >>

One of our Asp.Net web applications utilizes a 3rd party webservice that requires a client cert as part of the security model. The application code runs fine, authenticates the message, and returns the expected results in the development environment. I have installed the CA & Client Certs i...more >>

Hi, I want to create an application that uses Windows authentication only (cool windows NT pop-up), I have to use other criteria also suppose the user walks away for 15 min then checks the page again, then again I have to show the pop -up Please advice, Stephen ...more >>

We are interested in using Forms Authentication with Active Directory. We understand that the presence of web.config prevents access to .aspx files unless authenticated. Is there similar mechanism that authenticate users against AD when they want to access Word files or PDF files? We pr...more >>

Hi All I am making a suite of independent web applications on a single IIS server / multiple IIS servers. However, I want the user to login (using an independent login web application on any one of the IIS servers). After the user logs in, I want that his login session to be retained even if...more >>

Is it possible to find out what the permissions & roles are for the 'ASP.NET' and the 'NETWORK SERVICE' accounts? Cheers Ollie Riches ...more >>

Hi, I am new to active directory world but based on what i know i am trying to achieve following: 1. Look for user/groups on a windows 2000 machine which is not a PDC(primary domain controller). I created Directory entry object as follows: DirectoryEntry group = new DirectoryEntry("LDAP:/...more >>

How can a MS ASP.NET forms authentication work in Mozilla but not IE6? I haven't been able to make a site work in IE, it always throws me back to login page whereas in Mozilla it works just fine! ...more >>

I have created CustomPrincipal and CustomIdentity classes. Everything works great on my WinForms application, but as soon as i run my ASP.NET client I get a System.InvalidCastException: Specified cast is not valid error on the following line. CustomIdentity id = (CustomIdentity)Thread.Curre...more >>

I have a web server that I have tried my best to secure from hacking. I see some sign that they have tried to hack. I haven't seen any corruption at my web site. Is there anything I am supposed to look for that tells me that I have been hacked?...more >>

I am wanting to use Forms Authentication on my site, and I have the exact same code on another site I am using, but it's not working on this one. I only want to limit the "admin" folder to require me to log in, so I have this in my web config: <location path="admin" > <system.web> <aut...more >>

I am creating a web application for a company intranet and I am using Windows Authentication for a somewhat "transparent" login process. What I would like to do is allow all users into the application that exist in our LDAP under a particular user (their is a heirarchy associated with the LDAP t...more >>

Hello everybody, how can I use one authentication site (https://login.site.com) for other sites (on separate machines, i.e. http://www.books.biz)? What should I do to use Forms Authentication in this case?...more >>

I have a ASP.NET web service using COM Interop to hopefully access a Local COM Server ... however when I attempt to reference the Local COM Server I am receiving "Access Denied". We have provided full permissions to the EXE which is the foundation of the Local COM Server.... however I can ...more >>

I'm trying to use Certmgr.msc but when I run it I get message: "The certificates store cannot be enumerated. The system cannot find the file specified." This happens if I run from my dev work station or from my server. I thought Certmgr used to work on my dev work station. Can anyone tell...more >>

Is there a way to build a program to import certificates into IE - in place of using the import wizard? If so, where can I find the documentation and samples? For C++ or C# please. Thank you, Russ...more >>

Hi all, I'm currently using the following call to look up a user's windows Full Name from the domain controller: Dim strFilter = "(&(sAMAccountname=" & strUser & ")(objectClass=user))" Dim objEntry As New DirectoryEntry("LDAP://myDC", "user", "password") Dim search...more >>

I am creating a web application for use on an intranet and am having some problems understanding how to maintain web application user lists with windows authentication. Adding domain users to a group on the web server and utilizing <allow><deny> tags to restrict access is quite nice. However t...more >>

Hi, using enterprise services from dot-net: on windows application it did OK. on ASP.NET i get the folowing error. (see in the end) Access to the registry key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\EntSrvcTest1_direct.Global is denied if i use the components services MMC snap in to create a new applicatio...more >>

Hello. I'm creating a site that has basic authentication. Is it possible to have a custom login page display instead of the Windows login page? Thanks in advance, Mike ...more >>

Hi, I am using windows authentication on my ASP.Net application. With the WindowsPrincipal I can authenticate myself against groups such as BUILTIN\Users I am assuming that this group is supplied by the active directory when i log into the domain using my pc. The problem now is I hav...more >>

I have been struggling with this for a little while now. Let me explain my problem: I have a remote domain and a workgroup. I have an IIS server running on the workgroup. When I log into the IIS server I can map a drive located on the domain and can authenticate with a domain acocunt fine. Now...more >>

Hi, I put a xml file in a web site "http://localhost/XML/default.xml", and I try to open it from the following codes: Dim doc As XmlDocument doc = New XmlDocument() doc.Load("http://localhost/XML/default.xml") then I got an error: "(401) Unauthorized" When I enabled anonymous access ...more >>

Hi, I have a small asp.net app (with SSL, Win 2003 server standare, IIS6, SQL 2k)) which was working fine before it was moved to the DMZ. The application is accessed through our intranet only. We've given IP addresses of the user workstations that need access to the Server to the security peo...more >>

Hi - I am trying to set up Windows Authentication for an application to pass through credentials to SQL Server but I have done everything that most documentation seems to say to do but keep getting The request failed with HTTP Status 401: Access Denied !! My set up is as follows: Development...more >>

Well this little gem is popping up everywhere it seems! I installed VS.Net 03 on my machine along with all the pre-reqs including the .Net Redist framework 1.1. Subsequent to this, I lost the ability to run ASP let alone ASPX on my machine. All the information I have found pointed to ASPNET no...more >>

hi, can u plz point me to some good books and/or articles on managing user authentication and authorization w/ IIS 5,6 and IE 5,6...more >>

Hello, I'm using Forms Authentication. When the user logins for the first time, i create a persistent cookie, so the user will login automatically every time he browse the site. But suppose after I a week, i deleted the user from my DB. He still has the cookie on his computer, and will conn...more >>

Hi everyone, in my asp.net application,i need to find out if a particular user is in the administrator group and permit him access to certain pages accordingly. can anybody help me in finding out the administrative group in the active directory using c# and check if the user is a member of...more >>

I have a web application which calls a web service, which calls a method in an assembly of it's bin directory. The web application and web service use windows authentication with windows impersonation set in the web.config files. In IIS, these virtual directories have anonymous access turned...more >>

I have an application running on an IIS box that is trying to make a connection to a separate SQL server box. The application is using Windows NT authentication. During development I can access my data just fine. When I view it in the browser I get the message that the database does not exist...more >>

Hello everybody, I need to create custom forms authentification using SqlMembershipProvider. I want to place authentication ticket into query string (or use sessionID in query string instead ticket). How can I do this? ...more >>