Question

I have an web application that uses windows integrated security. I also have a windows service that runs as local system. The web application uses .NET remoting to execute a method on the serivce through tcpip channel. Is there a way, on .NET 2.0, to pass the windows identity to the service?

Answer 1

Per MSDN documentation, configure the client and server app.config files.

Server:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' ?> <configuration>     <system.runtime.remoting>         <application>             <channels>               <channel ref='tcp' secure='true' impersonate='true' />              </channels>         </application>     </system.runtime.remoting> </configuration> 

Client:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' ?> <configuration>     <system.runtime.remoting>         <application>             <channels>               <channel ref='tcp' secure='true' tokenImpersonationLevel='impersonation'/>              </channels>         </application>     </system.runtime.remoting> </configuration> 

Notice that the attribute is called impersonate for the server but tokenImpersonationLevel for the client.

See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/59hafwyt(VS.85).aspx