I'm my web application, I've specified to use forms authentication in the web config. In my signin page, I have an img tag to an image in my web applications virtual directory. Because the user is not signed in yet, the image url is not available, is there any way in the web config file to ...more >>

In have my web.config set up so that after three invalid login attempts, the user account will be locked out maxInvalidPasswordAttempts="3" passwordAttemptWindow="10" This all works fine. If I want the account to be enabled after a specific period of time has pas...more >>

I am trying to implment membership. The problem I am having is setting up the authentication and authorization section. I may have misunderstood this class. I want to have a user that is using IE and is a member of the domain or if there is a stand alone server that has a companion accoun...more >>

I have created a web service in microsoft studio .NET (.asmx file). The web service uses SOAP messages in order to communicate with the web page client. The programming language for the server is VB and Javascript for the client. I would like some help in order to insert an SSL protocol for ...more >>

Hi all I would like to now the answer to the following problem, if someone can help. Given a windows application client that's calling a web service (using default credentials) the web service gets invoked fine with the users credentials. However they need to call a second web service f...more >>

Quick background on what I'm using: Visual Web Developer 2005 SQL Server Express 2005 Hosted on my local machine (this is just a "get used to 2.0" test website) I have created the membership (?) schema in my existing Express 2005 database. That has went well. I have two users in that dat...more >>

Hi, we are creating an intranet where iis and sql server reside on different machines. We have been able to use identityimpersonate=true with windows authentication etc when iis and sql server reside on the same machine but cannot get this to work when they are on different machines. I r...more >>

Hi there, We are upgrading an ASP classic application to ASP.NET 2.0, and currently have a permission set of about 200 distict permissions. I am thinking of using the Membership provider to map each permission to a named Role, so we can explicitly or declaritively check for a given permissi...more >>

Hi I am using a custom database for Membership. The web admin tool connects fine to MySqlMembershipProvider, but when I try to use my login page I get the following error: System.Web.HttpException: Could not find the specified Membership Provider. All was working fine until I changed t...more >>

I am trying to use ActivedirectoryMembershipProvider in membership using Asp.net 2.0, VS2005. I am getting the error "Unable to establish secure connection with the server" . The server is a standalone server Windows server 2003. The server name is CDCROTTY The connection string is <add na...more >>

Hi I am getting a "Could not find the specified membership provider." error when trying to use the membership api. I can find no documentation on this error, or any other threads. Does anyone know how I can solve this? Thanks Andrew Wrigley ...more >>

Hi! I have several dotnet applications (or small webs). Sometimes it's necessary to restart IIS, but before doing this I would like to know currect sessions in IIS or in different apps. Is this possible?!?! Best regards /Magnus ...more >>

Hi; When I add a user using the SqlMembershipProvider (I have requiresUniqueEmail="false") and use CreateUser(name, password) - ie no email address, the user is created but CreateUser throws an exception saying the user already exists. Any idea why? -- thanks - dave david_at_windwa...more >>

Hello, We have an ASP.Net 2.0 web application running. If we connect to (and use) SqlClient objects from within the aspx pages themselves, all is well. However, if we create a Data Access Layer assembly, and place it into the /bin directory, and attempt to use said assembly, we get an erro...more >>

How to configure ASP.NET to attempt database connections as NETWORK SERVICE rather than MACHINE ACCOUNT {DOMAIN-NAME}\{MACHINE-NAME}$ ? ...more >>

This is driving me crazy. How do I redirect a failed AUTHORIZATION to a custom page in ASP.NET 2.0? All failed authorizations are going to my loginUrl, which is next to useless. I want an error page that says WHY a user can't access a URL. This seems like it should have been an obvious feat...more >>

Hi; I just want to confirm this. When I set <identity impersonate="true"/> that means I can impersonate on the server side. It does not mean that impersonation is set up in advance for each call to the code-behind. correct ??? - thanks - dave -- thanks - dave david_at_windward_dot_ne...more >>

I have IIS configured to log the query string for one of my companies' applications because it's used for some statistics, but I need to keep the query string from logging during a HTTP GET for a specific page. Is there a way to keep IIS from logging the query string for just one page? Or is ...more >>

hi all, by using the following code i can be able to retrieve the User "DisplayName" from the ActiveDirectory by using IE, if i run the same application by using Mozilla Firefox then i am getting "An operations error occurred" message, my requirements is my application should run in this tw...more >>

I am creating a site for the intranet at the company i work for, but there are 3 levels of security and a login form. All users have to authenticate with the system. Logins are stored in a DB, but i use windows authentication to find the account, this is working fine, and i have set the fo...more >>

I'm trying to use 2.0 forms authentication in a new web site. My book shows how to set this up with the ASP.Net Web Site Administration Tool by going to the Security tab and following the instructions there. However, on this page I get an "Unable to connect to SQL Server database" mess...more >>

have membership tables installed on external SQL database? check have login controls working such that new users are created in that table? check those users also show up in the asp management page? check Can grab all the users in a memberhship collection object and they are all valid and cor...more >>

Hi; We are thinking of writing our on membership & role provider. This would use whatever database each of our customers prefers - Sql Server, Oracle, DB2, or MySql. We figure that since the repository for our web app is in the database, that makes more sense than also requiring SqlExpress ...more >>

Hi; My system runs fine on my test system. On the production system it runs fine if I use windows authentication. But when I switch to the AspNetSqlMembershipProvider system for authentication/authorization I get "Your login attempt was not successful. Please try again." I copied App_Dat...more >>

Hy, I'm currently working on an web app with ASP.NET 2.0. Here are my needs : -I would like a custom form login screen. -My user information is kept in AD. -My ASP.NET application must access internal WebServices which require IIS Intregrated Windows Authntication. I current understanding ...more >>

Hi; If I have: <authorization> <deny users="?"/> <allow roles="Windward Users"/> </authorization> Then my page shows up fine and it allows any authenticated user (even those not in the Users role) in. If I do: <authorization> <deny users="*"/> <allow roles...more >>

I am trying to setup delegation from a IIS server to a SQL 2K backend server running on a different physical server from the IIS server. I am running into problems because when I try to delegate the MSSQL service is not on the list of services to select for the SQL server. Has anyone seen this b...more >>

Hi, I have an ASP.NET 2.0 application that is trying to access a shared drive. The shared drive requires a username and password. The username and password correspond to a local account on the W2K3 server where the drive is located. I have been looking at using impersonation to try and...more >>

hi, I have a web application that lets the users copy files from one unc source to different unc destinations. The impersonation flag in my web.config is set to true and I get the user's correct account name. When copying a file to a unc path the anonymous users context is used instead the us...more >>

Hi all, I am trying to create an new website using ASP.NET 2.0. I am using forms authentication, and I am trying to have it so that once a user signs in, they will never time out. However, after logging in - and then leaving the browser (IE6) open for a given period (I have not managed to ...more >>

Reading - Parsing Records From An LDAP LDIF File In .Net? I am in need of a .Net class that will allow for the parsing of a LDAP LDIF file. An LDIF file is the standard format for representing LDAP objects. I need to be able to read the records from an LDIF file into ..Net. There exists a...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to get delegation to work in my asp.net 2.0 web service. I've had the domain admins enable delegation for the web service machine but when I switch the iis service to run as a domain account instead of local system, I can't get in anymore from a remote machine. Internet exp...more >>

Hi Is it possible with forms authentication to have two seperate areas that need users to register for both for access. For example, i have a /trade/ directory and a /game/ directory. I need to allow users access to both after they have provided contact details. What i want to happen is that ...more >>