We want to have single sign on to several applications on our .NET intranet.

We read in _A Preview of Active Server Pages+_ page 288 that: "For cookie

authentication(FORMS authentication in beta2???) to work within a Web farm

envirement, the decryptionkey attribute of the cookie element must be set

and not be left blank or specified as the default value of autogenerate.".



 1. Is cookie authentication the same as Forms authentication?

 2. The decryptionkey attribute doesn't exist in web.config beta2:

	<authentication mode="Forms" >

            <forms name=".ASPXAUTH"

loginUrl="http://localhost/Auth1/login.aspx" protection="All"

timeout="60"/>

        </authentication>

 3. Does someone know how to use the same login page in a web farm?



	http://Intranet/Application1/



	http://Intranet/Application2/



	has the same loginpage



	http://Intranet/login.aspx





mvh,



Mats Boberg.