I am developing an Intranet and I want to display the user name on the page.

I seem to be having difficulty getting authentication to work with IIS. I don't want the users to be forced to type in a login and password, I want their existing network/Active Directory credentials to be authenticated automatically.

I have played with our IIS settings and the web.config file ad nauseam, and I am getting frustrated. As far as I can tell, I have the settings exactly like the tutorials I have seen on the web.

In IIS,
I have "allow anonymous access" turned OFF.
I have "Windows Integrated Authentication" turned ON.


In my web.config file, I have tried turning "impersonate" ON and OFF with no noticeable effect.

My vb code is:
Dim authuser As WindowsIdentity = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent()
System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.Write(auth user.Name.ToString())

Can someone tell me the settings I need to have for IIS and web.config?

Thanks

Have you tried getting the value of the AUTH_USER server variable?

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dparsons,

Thank you for replying. I am not having problems reading the user variable. My problem is that when I turn "anonymous access" off, and "integrated windows authentication" on, the web site challenges everyone on the network for their login/password.

I want our Intranet to work so that people don't get challenged for a login/password and their current network credentials are used to authenticate them. I have followed several "how to" articles, but I think our net admin has something misconfigured with active directory...or maybe I do with IIS.

Also, I want users to be able to download network files via the Intranet without being challenged. If they click a link pointng to a file sitting out on the network somewhere, I don't want them to be challenged.

If anyone has this working and is willing to share their settings for AD and IIS, I would appreciate it.

Thanks