Hi

I've been looking at the documentation and googling like mad since yesterday for this. I am very new to DNN so fully expect this is something that has been covered plenty of times before - apologies in advance then :)

What I'd like to do instead of forcing everyone in the domain to register is perhaps set it to automatically pick up their DOMAIN account when they arrive - though making them register wouldn't be a terrible thing, but it should force their username to their domain account name, or at least tie whatever name they enter up to the domain one.

Group membership should preferably be related to AD groups as well, so I can just grant permissions to certain DNN parts by picking an existing domain group.

To see if I could set this up in a domain mode, I dropped my dnn database, and altered my web.config to:

    <identity impersonate="true" />
    <authentication mode="Windows">
    </authentication>

Also changed the dnn site in IIS manager to disable anonymous authentication, using integrated windows only and went to recreate my database. It seems to have partially created the database, but failed on a GetHostSettings eventually - weird as that SP was actually there in the DB.

I can't think that what I'm attempting here is going to work, but I've seen posts that suggest it is possible - but can't find any clear direction on how to set it up so I'm just stabbing around in the dark a bit.

Can anyone advice please?

Thanks in advance
AW

Hi,

Here is a rather long thread dealing with windows authentication and DNN.

http://forums.asp.net/894319/ShowPost.aspx

Yes it's possible.  Have you seen this thread.

http://forums.asp.net/894391/ShowPost.aspx

There is a Windows Authentication add in located at www.tttcompany.com.  I haven't tried the new version but the one for DNN2 works great.

Thanks for both those posts, yes I've read those threads thoroughly (and a couple similar ones).

My problem though was that those threads are about 6 months old - and talk is of it being in beta around then. I had hoped it was all done&dusted by now, and it was just myopia preventing my seeing what I should be doing.

Thanks

I tried to check it out, but when I went to Download, DNN, all I got was a painfully slow forum message scrolling by (from which I eventually manged to find my way into a proper forum). No sign of a download link anywhere.

Whatever is going on at that site - it's not worth the hassle I think of trying to find it. Sadly. :(

Is the bottom line however that this functionality I'm looking for non-existant in core? In which case, I'll think up some alternatives....

Thanks :)

What you're looking for is not available in the core.  I've had great success with Tams mod.  The download will not show up until you register on his site.

Thanks for that.

I had registered yesterday and poked around, but aside from his forum I couldn't see any links. However, I re-registered again today and it took me straight to the download links. Maybe there was a slight problem yesterday (or maybe I was at a particular level in the site when I registered and didn't work my way back out to the top), but regardless I'm on my way now.

Thanks to all respondents for the tips.

AW