On May 14, 8:19 am, "Anthony" <anthony.s...@spammedout.com> wrote:
> The best way to do this would be to create a second site to the same
> content. That's the way SharePoint deals with the same type of problem.
> You might be able to do something by having only the first page request
> authentication and then on failure directing the browser to a second page
> that does not require authentication, but I haven't tried it. You would
> enable WIA and Anon on the whole site, then only on the first page change
> the ntfs file permissions to allow only your AD users. If you have set their
> browsers up with the right settings they will auto logon, but others will
> fail and go on to the second page and to the rest of the site.
> Anthonyhttp://www.airdesk.co.uk
>
> <atemwe...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:1178914764.319997.192430@e51g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
>
> >I am designing an intranet site. All content is unprotected - anybody
> > on the intranet should be able to see everything. There is a
> > requirement to provide silent authentication against corporate Active
> > Directory whenever possible; in other words, when a user navigates to
> > the home page, we want to read some data from AD and provide
> > personalization if possible; however, if a visitor comes without AD
> > credentials (e.g. using a browser on a UNIX box not integrated with
> > AD), we would still authorize access and provide default user
> > experience. Under no circumstances should a user be prompted to log
> > in.
>
> > I need to have anonymous access enabled to allow for search engines to
> > "spider" this site, allow access for people who can't authenticate
> > with Windows Authentication, and avoid breaking other sites that
> > connect to the content of this site.
>
> > Basic Authentication seems like a perfect solution, but it forces a
> > logon dialogue for Firefox users (IE seems to do what I would like -
> > automatically replies to the challenge in the WWW-Authenticate header
> > of 401 response).
>
> > It seems like there should be a way to accomplish what I want. Please,
> > help.

<atemwende@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1178914764.319997.192430@e51g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
>I am designing an intranet site. All content is unprotected - anybody
> on the intranet should be able to see everything. There is a
> requirement to provide silent authentication against corporate Active
> Directory whenever possible; in other words, when a user navigates to
> the home page, we want to read some data from AD and provide
> personalization if possible; however, if a visitor comes without AD
> credentials (e.g. using a browser on a UNIX box not integrated with
> AD), we would still authorize access and provide default user
> experience. Under no circumstances should a user be prompted to log
> in.
>
> I need to have anonymous access enabled to allow for search engines to
> "spider" this site, allow access for people who can't authenticate
> with Windows Authentication, and avoid breaking other sites that
> connect to the content of this site.
>
> Basic Authentication seems like a perfect solution, but it forces a
> logon dialogue for Firefox users (IE seems to do what I would like -
> automatically replies to the challenge in the WWW-Authenticate header
> of 401 response).
>
> It seems like there should be a way to accomplish what I want. Please,
> help.
>