I have placed the following web.config file into a folder: <authorization> <allow roles="ROLE NAME"/> <deny users="*"/> <deny users="?"/> </authorization> My browser can still access files in that folder without any problem. What is the easiest way to find out the problem and if ...more >>

Hi, I changed the default provider for usernames like this in web.config: </connectionStrings> <clear/> <add name="myprovider" connectionString="Data Source=.\sqlexpress;Initial Catalog=mydb;Integrated Security=True" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"/> </connectionStrings> <members...more >>

Hi, i am facing problem with Roles.GetRolesForUser(UserName). When i run application on my machine the Method returning zero-dimension array, Insted of When i run the same application on my friend's machine. it returns value in array. For the application we are using the SQL 2005 databas...more >>

Hi all, I am new to Windows Authentication altough I have been reading about windows authentication for a few days now. Here is my problem.....I have windows client applications that users would login to. All client instances will be running on windows machines and will be connected to a se...more >>

Hello all, In my Asp.net application I use Dcom object to retrieve some data. To configure it I checked : "Enable COM Internet Services on this computer and" and add the user ASP.NET to COM security. At one of the test computers I get the error : "Retrieving the COM class factory for compone...more >>

I'm using ASP.NET 2.0 on IIS7. I would like to encrypt some configuration section in the web.config file. However, after doing this, I only have blank pages when accessing the site. There is no error at all. Going back to an unencrypted web.config solve the problem. Any help appreciated. TI...more >>

Using .NET I did check some of the properties in AD and I see that for some reasons there is a difference in the type of the result value. For example, SearchResult.Properties["operatingsystem"][0] returns a value of type string on my development box under WinXP. The same query on a server under...more >>

I'm searching in AD for computers (objectClass=computer) in a few domains. The search works just fine in "small" domains with less than 1,000 of computer entries, and failed on domain with more than 4,000 entries. I do receive only first 560 objects and either get a timeout, or app is never stop...more >>

Hello! I have intranet web app in ASP.NET 2.0. IIS is set to require "Windows Integrated" or "Digest against AD" authentication. ASP.NET auth mode is "Windows", impersonation is set to true. Up to this moment everything works just fine. The problem is, that i can't query AD in any way w...more >>

I have a web service in .net 1.5 that I am consuming using windows application. I am running this windows application on Windows XP Pro. Now if we use SQL server Authentication in WebService to connect to database I am able to Invoke this web service from Windows Application(running on XP) ...more >>

I am using 'System.Web.Security.Membership' & 'System.Web.UI.WebControls.Login' control to implement Forms based authentication. Can I call Membership.ValidateUser() from Login.OnAuthenticate()? I want to do this because I want to control cookie creation. I have not been able to find a samp...more >>

I want to be able to securely encrypt a user name and password for a web app. The user name/password is to be used in for authorization to a web service not a db. For security reasons the company wants to encrypt what is in the web config file and be able to move the web app to different mach...more >>

I recently set up a new ASP.NET web page, the first one I've ever done in a real, honest to goodness server that wasn't my local machine. I've got a web hosting service (from oneandone, in case anyone knows it.) I would very much like to use the membership services. On my local machine I ...more >>

Hello, Im using ASP.NET 2.0. I'm trying to encrypt the connectionStrings section of the web.config file with the following command : C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_regiis.exe -pef "connectionStrings" "C:\inetpub\wwwroot\NAWEB3" Usually this is working fine but today o...more >>

Hi: Has anybody managed to do this? We have setup forms authentication to validate against AD. We'd like to use AD for roles based authorization. The documentation on ASP.NET leads me to believe WindowsTokenRoleProvider is possible only if I use Integrated Windows Authentication? Thank...more >>

On my ASP.NET 2.0 website project on VS 2005, I am getting the following error when building the solution: “The type or namespace name 'ADSI' does not exist in the namespace 'myNameSpace' (are you missing an assembly reference?)” I do have the following added to my web.config file: ...more >>

Bonjour! I have an application that use the integrated windows authentication from IIS to login against our AD, but some of our users are using station or compurter open to public. When they submit their request I want them to able to logoff so the next person can create their own request....more >>

Hi, In my ASP.NET application I want the password to expires after some time. When a user sign in and his password is expired I automatically send him to the change password page with a message explaining why he is required to change his password. What I want to do is prevent him to bro...more >>

I have a client in the healthcare industry who would prefer to store the connection string in a centralized location in their Active Directory repository. Has anybody done this? What has your experience been? Are there any stock components in ASP.NET or 3rd party that would make this ea...more >>

In my web application, I need to establish an SSL connection to a remote web site and authenticate a user using Integrated Windows Authentication. The remote website only allows this authentication method, and it has only one web page: index.html, which simply says: hola, amigo. Please note...more >>

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