Authentication

[SomethinCool]

I was wondering how you could authenticate users by Active Directory. I don't want a login page, but in the web.config file I would like to use the <authentication> and <identity> tags.

I have it set to:
<authentication mode="Windows" />

<identity impersonate="true" userName="myUserName" password="myPassword" />

[SeanGrebey]

I'm no expert at this, but how I've gotten it to work is...

    <authentication mode="Windows"/> 
    <authorization>
        <allow users="*"/> <!-- Allow all users -->
    </authorization>

Then make sure the Web Server is included in your Intranet and shut off Anonymous Access in IIS.

[SomethinCool]

Can you shut off anonymous access to a virtual directory on IIS on Windows 2000 Server?

[SeanGrebey]

Can you shut off anonymous access to a virtual directory on IIS on Windows 2000 Server?

Again I am seriously no expert, have just monkeyed around until I got it to work right, but in IIS 6.0 I right click on the Virtual Directory, select properties, and then under Directory Security, I click on Edit in the Authentication and Access Control box, and then the first check box should be to enable/disable anonymous access to the directory.