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Topic: Setup Windows Authentication

Posted By: ljurgens
Subject: Setup Windows Authentication
Date Posted: 13 June 2007 at 9:33pm

I have a new install and need to turn on Windows Authentication. I cannot find any documentation on doing this. Please point me in the right direction.

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 14 June 2007 at 7:56am

Open the file functions/functions_windows_authentication.asp and follow the instructions in that file on how to enable this.

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Posted By: ljurgens
Date Posted: 14 June 2007 at 3:05pm

I get the following error thrown when we turn this on:

err_SQLServer_windowsAuthentication()_get_AUTH_USER

Could this be due to the fact that our workstations are not in our domain? We cannot have them in the domain due to some software issues with novell's zenworks application.

What about LDAP ?

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 14 June 2007 at 4:09pm

If you could post the detailed error message it may give a better idea as to what the issue maybe.

ASP is only able to get a very limited amount of data from the server, and can not pass any information back.

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Posted By: ljurgens
Date Posted: 14 June 2007 at 4:16pm

Here is what I get:

Server Error in Forum Application
An error has occured while reading Authenticated User's, username from Windows Server.
Please check that are using a Windows Authenticated Login System and you are NOT browsing this site anonymously.
Please contact the forum administrator.

Support Error Code:- err_SQLServer_windowsAuthentication()_get_AUTH_USER
File Name:- functions_windows_authentication.asp

Error details:-

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 14 June 2007 at 4:30pm

It does look like the way ASP gets the user data from the OS is not compatible with the login system you are using.

As far as I recall Novell always used it's own login system. The only option is to have a look through Google and see if there is away for ASP to read in the login details from Novell.

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Posted By: ljurgens
Date Posted: 14 June 2007 at 4:38pm

Thanks. We do have other ASP pages that authenticate. So we will look through the code and see what we are doing. If you are interested, I will respond with our findings and code.

-Lance

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 14 June 2007 at 4:47pm

Yes it could be useful for others and will see if it can be added into future versions so you don't need to modify the code when you update.

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Posted By: MrMellie
Date Posted: 14 June 2007 at 5:00pm

Yeah, Novell uses the NDS for logins. It should be feasable to get the login info, the API definately exisits. I've used it on Visual FoxPro apps before.