Questions tagged [windows-authentication]
Windows authentication (or Integrated Windows Authentication) is a process where connections to applications or external systems are automatically authenticated with the currently logged on Windows user. This functionality was first made available in Windows 2000.
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IIS 7.5: How to configure custom Authentication Error page with Windows Authentication. 401 header problems
I have a php website running under IIS 7.5. The site is secured by Windows authentication and that works fine:
When users go to the site, they are asked for username/password and get through if ...
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How did I get this Windows share to prompt for login?
Or: "Is this a thing? And how would I check if it was?"
In an environment without a Domain Controller, when accessing a share on a Windows Server 2008 R2 box, from a remote computer without a ...
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Why won't RDP accept my stored credentials, and makes me manually enter it every time?
Trying to log in to an Amazon EC2 instance (running Windows Server 2012 R2) via RDP. It works, and I can connect, but having saved the credentials that worked, they never seem to be accepted on ...
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Unable to assign group permissions with ICACLS on Windows Server 2012
I cannot get icacls to accept my group for adding permissions. I am using an elevated power shell with the following command:
icacls 'C:/foo' /grant:r 'Group Foo':f
I get the following error:
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Definition of BUILTIN\Users?
For a server on a Windows Domain, what is the membership of "BUILTIN\Users" exactly?
(I figure this has an obvious answer, but googling hasn't given me any clear definitions)
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Authentication via RADIUS : MSCHAPv2 Error 691
I am working on setting up authentication into an Acme Packet Net-Net 3820 (SBC) via RADIUS. The accounting side of things is working just fine with no issues. The authentication side of things is ...
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Windows authentication to IIS on local server with fully qualified url
I have a web application set up in IIS 7 configured with Windows Authentication. I can authenticate to the machine via it's fully qualified url from any other machine and it uses the proper Domain. ...
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Windows Authentication behaves oddly when VPN'd
We've got a few apps that rely on windows authentication - a couple of web apps with AD auth turned on and we usually connect to our SQL servers with windows auth. This normally runs without a hitch. ...
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Risks of Kerberos Delegation
I've been spending hours upon hours trying to learn and understand Windows Authentication, Kerberos, SPNs, and Constrained Delegation in IIS 7.5. One thing I just don't get is why it is "risky" to ...
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Why can a user log in via more than one UPN?
I've changed the for all users UPN suffix of a company from us.mycompany.local to mycompany.com in order to use claims-aware applications. In testing before the change I discovered that even if I ...
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Integrated Windows Authentication with Chrome and FireFox
I have a webapplication which uses claims based authentication. The STS is ADFS 2.0.
When I am in the intranet and use IE, IWA is used and no login dialog appears. When I am on the internet zone, the ...
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How come identical name and authentication between two windows PCs on same network works?
My Experiment
So I set up a simple network with Two computers. Both on the same Work group.
I created a LOCAL user 'A' with pasword 'A' in Computer 1.
And then I created an identical named LOCAL ...
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Minimum Number of Port need to Open between Windows Client & Domain Controller Only
I just want to know, which port need to be open if i place firewall between Windows Client ( XP or 7 ) and Domain Controller ( Window Server 2008 R2 )
Please note it is between Client and DC and not ...
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Where does Credential Manager store credentials on the file system?
I want to clear a users stored credentials on a remote machine. Without having to have the user login and open the Cred manager GUI or run CMDKEY with them logged in.
Is there a place on the file ...
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"Anonymous Logon" vs "NTLM V1" What to disable?
Working on getting rid of NTLM V1 logins all together in the AD environment; found lot of events, almost all of them from the user "Anonymous Logon"(4624 events) other 1(4624 events) percent coming ...
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Connecting to other instances of Hyper-V Manager in domain
I have a test environment that I host from my computer. I have configured an external switch so that it can be accessed by others. Windows 8 Enterprise and Hyper-V Manager Version: 6.2.9200.16384
If ...
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Can I set a default domain for a Windows Authenticated website in IIS7?
I have an intranet site using Windows Authentication. When users are prompted for credentials, they enter:
User: domain\username
Pass: SomePassword
It'd be nice if they could leave off the domain\ ...
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IIS 8.5 Windows Authentication failing for some users
I have an application that was installed requiring Windows Authentication under Windows 2012, IIS 8.5. When certain users use the application, they're receiving a 401 error after the challenge/...
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Company Wide Windows Auth with Chrome and Firefox
I know that we can allow Firefox to allow passing through of Windows credentials by editing the following about:config settings
--If using Kerberos--
network.negotiate-auth.trusted-uris
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Linux Authentication by Active Directory without joining to domain
I have a Win 2008 AD based network. I want to setup a few boxes with dual boot Win/Linux. How can I achieve to authenticate the users with existing AD in Linux?
All solutions - I have found yet - ...
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IIS 7.5 web application failing with NT Authority\Anonymous Logon
I am finding various google results, but none seem to fix my problem.
I am setting up a new WINDOWS 2008 R2 box at work that is to communicate with an existing SQL 2012 box via web tools running in ...
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Web app running as NETWORK SERVICE can connect to SQL Server but windows service running as LOCAL SYSTEM cannot
I have installed a .net web application on a Windows Server 2003 IIS server, running in an Application Pool as NETWORK SERVICE and connecting to SQL Server on a different machine using Integrated ...
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Mirrored local accounts to connect to database on different server and domain
My database client and database server are on different machines and are not connected to the same domain (this is not supported with my web host). I'm not keen to send username/password details via a ...
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The trust relationship between the primary domain and the trusted domain failed
Scenario: We have an application server (IIS 7.0, Windows 2008 R2) and a seperate database server (SQL 2008) for both our test and production environments (so 4 servers total). Our application server ...
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Computers losing contact to the Domain
We have a problem with a set of computers on our domain. they are constantly losing their trust relationship with the domain. it first happened last week and 8 days later happened again. On the Server ...
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SQL Server Windows Authentication NTUSERNAME is different to Windows Login
An employee at a client has just got married and as a result they have changed her details, login name et al., in Active Directory (AD).
The problem is SUSER_NAME() in procedures and the NTUSERNAME ...
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Outlook Prompting for password from Exchange server in domain environment
We are running exchange 2007 in a domain environment. We have mostly outlook 2003 clients, but in process of upgrading to outlook 07 over the next couple of weeks.
Some users (both 03 & 07) are ...
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What is the relationship between User Rights Assignment Policies vs. Membership of Local Groups
I just spent the better part of this morning on a support call with a vendor where we eventually resolved our issue by manually adding the service account their application was using to the following ...
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Remote Desktop Authentication without NTLM - How to Configure from non-Windows clients?
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This has been bugging me for quite a while (and no amount of internet searching has amounted to a decent solution), so I'm hoping someone can offer some sage advice. When I try and start a ...
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IIS and SQL Server Windows authentication in a django application
I am trying to run a django website which connects to a SQL Server, using IIS with Windows authentication.
IIS server and SQL server are on different machines under the same domain i.e., iis_machine....
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Windows Authentication to a Remote Server within an Intranet Environment
I have several servers (all on the same DC) within an Intranet environment at my company. For simplicity, I'll focus my question on the IIS and SQL Servers. I have an IIS 7.5 web server and a remote ...
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Users Experience Windows Authentication Prompt for Single ASPX Page Server 2012 IIS 8.5
I have an application published via IIS 8.5 on Windows Server 2012 that can leverage Windows-integrated credentials for SSO. Users can successfully sign in to the application and navigate to the vast ...
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Disable authentication on subfolder(s) of an ASP.NET app using windows authentication
Is it possible to disable windows authentication on one or more subfolders of an ASP.net application using windows authentication?
For example:
A website contains several other folders that contain ...
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What happens to my SQL Server logins if I change a windows domain username
My question is very similar to this question Changing Windows Domain UserName but the original question doesn't explicitly answer my slight variation.
If I change a windows users username (if they ...
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Windows Auth in IIS does not work when browsing to the website on the server running IIS using a URL with an A record pointing to the IIS server
I have a website that runs on IIS that uses windows authentication.
On the website level, under 'Authentication' I have only Windows Authentication (NTLM only as a provider) enabled.
On the virtual ...
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Force IIS to prompt for credentials
We have a website that should only be accessed by authenticated active directory users. The first thing that should happen when entering the site is a prompt to enter windows credentials.
To ...
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ARR 3 IIS 7.5 Windows Authentication not working
We have been spinning our wheels trying to get windows authentication working through ARR.
We've created a new domain account (appservices)
ARR Server (srvarr) using default app pool with user set ...
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Kerberos authentication failing with 401
We have a .NET MVC 3 application deployed in IIS 7 on our Windows 2008 server (let's call it PROD). The application has Anonymous and Windows Authentication enabled - all others are disabled. The ...
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SQL Server 2008 - Can't Log On via local SQL Server Management Studio
FYI: OS is SQL Server 2008 (NOT R2).
Yesterday, when I was trying to get Visual Studio 2010 on a remote Win XP machine to be able to debug ASP.NET over the network, I installed Active Directory (and ...
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IIS7 Slow for some users when using Windows Authentication
We have an internet site containing a "hello world" .html file on IIS7 with Windows authentication turned on. The users are local machine Windows users on the web-server. For some users the site is ...
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Windows service running as network service - how does it authenticate? Breaking change in W2K8?
A Windows service running as "Network Service" talks to services on other machines (here: SQL Server and Analysis Services), using Windows authentication.
For authentication, we have to grant ...
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Intranet website - getting a login box although I have configured Windows Authentication in IIS
In a Windows AD domain environment (MYDOMAIN with DNS suffix mydomain.local), I have a server with an Intranet website, that runs on IIS 7.5. I have disabled all authentication types except Windows ...
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Windows authentication to SQL Server via IIS and PHP
We're running a PHP 5.4 application on Server 2008 R2. We would like to connect to a SQL Server 2008 database, on a separate server, using Windows authentication (must be Windows authentication--the ...
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IIS 7 Windows Authentication Wrong User
IIS 7, Integrated App Pool, Identity set to NetworkService
We've recently moved an asp.net MVC 3 to our production environment. The application uses windows authentication. The production environment ...
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Integrated Windows Authentication with Apache in Windows
I have a server running Windows 2000 / Apache 2.0 and PHP 5.
I need a server that recognizes the user's login client PC that is in the same domain.
All the tutorials I find are with IIS or Apache on ...
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Authentication Prompt is Looping Forever on Website Hosted on Internal Server in IIS
I've created a plain HTML file in a newly created web site in IIS. Also, I've disabled anonymous authentication and I've enabled windows authentication.
I'm trying to authenticate using a domain user ...
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Workstation authentication against wrong AD server in multi-site configuration
Having a problem which I've seen before but haven't yet found a solution to, I've got multiple AD sites in one domain physically separated and logically separated by different subnets and AD sites.
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Does active directory log authentication success/failure with the OS?
For example, if I use an AD account to login on Windows 7 and then Windows 8, will I be able to tell in logs setup by default?
If not by default, how would I set this logging up?
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How to send mails using a custom .NET application and Windows authentication to a distribution list that only allows authenticated senders?
This is basically a cross post from my StackOverflow question to see if I can get a server side perspective.
I'm trying to send automated emails from a C# console application from machines to clients ...
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How to login faster using a domain account when the domain is unavailable
I have a laptop with Windows 7 ultimate enterprise edition installed. This is a company laptop so i have domain account as I am a domain user but also a local administrator on my laptop.
My problem ...
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