"Brent Magnant" <bmagnant@news.postalias> wrote in message
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> Hello All,
>
> I asked this question in the generic IIS group, but I did not get a
> response, so I am posting it here as well. Apologies if you have
> already read it ...
>
> I have googled a lot of pages on this problem, but I have not found a
> consistent response. Most questions about this seem to bew OWA
> related. I even tried MS support on the phone, but after 30 minutes on
> hold I hung up!
>
> I work with a state-wide network (in a small state!). Only about 50%
> of our users log into the domain when they log into their computer,
> the rest do not log into the domain (they log in locally) , but they
> supply their credentials when they want to log into OWA or one of our
> other applications.
>
> I recently setup a web interface to a new helpdesk system. Windows
> integrated authentication works great for me and anyone logged into
> their computer with their AD account.
>
> When someone who is not logged into the domain tries to log in, they
> get prompted for their username and password. This is fine, except
> they need to log in with 'domain\username' instead of just 'username'.
> This is different from all of our other applications. IIS is
> attempting to log them in as localmachine\username instead of
> domain\username.
>
> I have tried various iterations of settings using the default domain
> setting in the IIS config. It seemed to work for a bit if I used basic
> authentication, but I don't want passwords floating about in clear
> text.
>
> Does anyone know if there is a way to change the server behavior so
> that I don't have to use basic authentication and the user can log in
> with just username & password without specifying the domain? Is there
> a way to set the default domain to not be localmachine?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Brent