Hey all,

I really aint a beginner anymore but this seems like a beginner question as I am having a hard time finding the answer. On a company network in the same domain, I want my web apps to be user aware. Meaning when someone hits my site, I can grab their login name or string. Not the password, i want windows to take care of all the authentication, I just want to know who it is. This is on an intranet. I have tried the WindowsIdentity class but found some strange results. When I test it in VS2K5, I get the results I want as it knows me. I put it up on the app server and hit it and it comes back with the NT AUTHORITY hehe. Anyone wanna nudge me in the right direction?

I hate when I post a question and find the answer. So, just so everyone can know what i was doing wrong.

WindowIdentity, HttpContext and Thread can all get back a user's login info from the browser but they all work differently according to what you have configured in the Web.Config. My issue was missing the impersonate line which has to be true with Windows authentication for WindowIdentity to grab the current user's info. You can find this info I found here on MSDN site and worth looking at if you ever going to work for a company who doesn't want their users logging into every site. Works good too if you have the SIDs for the groups in AD for your network as you can even make pages group based based on the SIDs. This model makes me able to build the pages and have someone else administer the rights by just knowign Active Directory hehe. Also, i don't have to mess with LDAP this way. Any, info on the impersonation stuff is here.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...SecNetAP05.asp