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I’m publishing a public ASP.NET website. I’m assuming the visitor is using Windows and Internet Explorer. I want to display the Windows username on the front page, is it possible?
I have already enabled Windows Authentication in IIS and on a development environment everything works fine. On production it keeps asking the Windows login credentials.
For Windows Authentication, the user must supply credentials that can authenticate to the server/domain in which the website is running. If the client is running within the same domain and authenticated, Internet Explorer will automatically handle the credential exchange; this is why it works in the dev environment. However, when accessed from the public side, Internet Explorer tries to hand over the credentials that the user is currently using (some other Windows domain), but those credentials cannot authenticate to your sever, so IE prompts the user to enter credentials that can authenticate to that domain.