Author: Dovdimus Prime | Posted on: 9/3/2008 8:43:42 AM | Views : 318

Hi all

I have a small web application which uses Windows Authentication. When I run the application from Visual Studio itself (i.e. by right clicking a page in Solution Explorer and choosing 'View In Browser', it always authenticates just fine, without prompting for username and password, and gives an authentication type of 'NTLM'. This is true both for IE6 and Firefox 3 (the browsers we have on our network).

When I copy the application to the Default Web Site location (C:\Inetpub\wwwroot) ON THE SAME MACHINE, set the application up in IIS to use Windows Authentication (disabling anonymous access), and then type 'localhost' into the browser, I get different results for IE and Firefox:

IE: doesn't prompt for username or password, and reports authentication type as 'Negotiate'

Firefox: prompts for username and password, and reports authentication type as 'NTLM'.

Some questions about this:

1) Wh ...

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