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Re: How-To: CS and DNN SSO for Developers

yeoshua — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 22:23:12 GMT

maybe some one that did it, can create a new install zip for us - DNN3_2_2_CS2_0.zip

Re: How-To: CS and DNN SSO for Developers

Vladan Strigo — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 15:52:02 GMT

darshn wrote:
Hi..I am not too familiar with CS 2.0, but was wondering if this solution will work for CS 2.0 and dnn 3.2...Thanks!

Bump

has anyone tried this or Dan's solution on CS 2.0 and DNN 3.2?

Re: How-To: CS and DNN SSO for Developers

darshn — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 02:06:31 GMT

Hi..I am not too familiar with CS 2.0, but was wondering if this solution will work for CS 2.0 and dnn 3.2...Thanks!

Re: How-To: CS and DNN SSO for Developers

gsc4 — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 07:56:58 GMT

Eric,

I don't have much time for detail right now, but I'm sure you'll appreciate the response nonetheless. This method does accomplish what you wan to do and the quickest way I can demonstrate this is to ask you to go to the following website and register, then test it by signing in and out and moving between the site and forums. To be completely satisfied with how it works make sure you test with the "Remember Login" option checked and not checked and test with separate browser instances and the same browser instance (new window). http://www.gameserve.com.au

Please remember and respect that the site constitutes a real life active community (if you post try to fit in with the locals there).

Regards,
Steve.

Re: How-To: CS and DNN SSO for Developers

eric@digitrends — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 00:30:48 GMT

Steve,

I think what I was expecting is if I login to DNN, i would be automatically logged in to CS as well, so it becomes a transparent to the user that it is one application. If I log out from DNN, it would log out from CS and viceversa.

Don't we need to create a webmethod in GetUserByUsername to allow this to happen?

I been testing this and what I am able to do is synchronise the databases, in terms of registration etc..but I can't seem to login and out transparently.

regards
Eric

Re: How-To: CS and DNN SSO for Developers

gsc4 — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 13:01:54 GMT

joswalt,

Thanks for that post, a very interesting read. If I ever get time away from work I would love to set that up and play around with it. Knowing the work it took to get as far as I have, I can only imagine what Dan is going through (Dan, if your reading this - well done!).

Both approaches should really be kept in a development environment at this stage, but having said that I must admit that I have two live sites using the webservices approach. The reason I am comfortable with this is because this approach is not really an "integration". The databases are not altered from the original designs and are only synchronised by the webservice. The single sign on operates via shared keys and cookies. There is no re-architecture - nothing that cannot easily be reversed.

When Dan Bartels releases his solution I may very well remove the webservices from my sites and return them to separate CS and DNN entities - they will run without error. This will place me in the same position as any other developer running live DNN or CS sites wishing to utilise Dan's solution.

Re: How-To: CS and DNN SSO for Developers

joswalt — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 15:09:22 GMT

You can also check out a blog post by Dan Bartels, who I believe works for Telligent and is working on integrating DNN and CS. He has gotten SSO with DNN and CS without having to use a web service. You can check out the post here: Installing CS 1.1 under DotNetNuke 3.1.

Re: How-To: CS and DNN SSO for Developers

eric@digitrends — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 04:35:29 GMT

thanks you steve for the response. Will go over it with a fine tooth comb tonight

Re: How-To: CS and DNN SSO for Developers

gsc4 — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 11:55:27 GMT

Eric,

It's not much information to go on but the best bet is to probably check Step 4. It sounds to me like the web service is being called correctly because you have your user synchronisation, but this step contains the crucial stuff for the SSO to work. This basically ensures that both applications are using the same cookie and encrypting using the same keys. Note that the keys are edited in the appSettings section AND added to the system.web section.

Regards,
gsc4.

Re: How-To: CS and DNN SSO for Developers

eric@digitrends — Sat, 13 Aug 2005 10:10:22 GMT

Steve,

I implemented it and i can add a user in dnn and see it reflected in CS however i can't seem to log in to one and have it login in to another.

I have a site beta.site.com and defined beta.site.com/dnn and beta.site.com/cs and did as you did with window 2003 directing the url to beta.site.com/dnn

any clues where i should look at?

regards
Eric

Re: How-To: CS and DNN SSO for Developers

eric@digitrends — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 00:16:23 GMT

Thanks for all your help mate on SSO solution.

I plan to try it this weekend. I have a DNN2.12 module that i need to migrate users from. I was going to get the DNNMasters Membership Management Suite PRO from Snowcovered to move the users into 3.1 format.

Do you know if I start migrating users across, will the CS database get updated as well?

I have an added complication that I have to move forums from dotnetbb to Cs as well lol

regards
Eric

Re: How-To: CS and DNN SSO for Developers

gsc4 — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 01:17:55 GMT

UPDATE: This works for DotNetNuke 3.1 and Community Server 1.1 (people have already dicovered this, but I thought it should be stated here).

UPDATE: When installing Community Server 1.1 you can force it to use the keys generated by the DotNetNuke installer (this is not necessary for this to work). To force this you can edit the ../Installer/default.aspx, for example:

<code>
protected string ValidationKey
{
  get
  {
   string key = ViewState["ValidationKey"] as string;
   if(key == null)
   {
    key = CreateKey(20);
    ViewState["ValidationKey"] = key;
   }
   return "INSERT-MACHINEVALIDATIONKEY-VALUE-FROM-DOTNETNUKE";
  }
}

protected string DecryptionKey
{
  get
  {
   string key = ViewState["DecryptionKey"] as string;
   if(key == null)
   {
    key = CreateKey(24);
    ViewState["DecryptionKey"] = key;
   }
   return "INSERT-MACHINEDECRYPTIONKEY-VALUE-FROM-DOTNETNUKE";
  }
}
</code>

Re: How-To: CS and DNN SSO for Developers

Craugory — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:39:41 GMT

You were right, WSE 2 isn't wasn't installed by default... it's up and running now :)
Thank you so much.
Craig

Re: How-To: CS and DNN SSO for Developers

gsc4 — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 23:05:50 GMT

Just quickly (really busy at work right now):

- I think you might be right to think of the Microsoft.Web.Services2.dll as this is a part of Web Services Enhancements 2.0 SP3.
- You would have installed Web Services Enhancements 2.0 SP3 on your development box but I have no idea whether this would be installed on the server used for your webhost4life account - have you asked them?
(I'm not sure that simply copying the DLL to your websites BIN folder will work).

Regards,
gsc4

Re: How-To: CS and DNN SSO for Developers

Craugory — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 20:14:12 GMT

Thanks so much for this. It works great on my Dev Box but when I compile and upload the CS solution to my production server I get the following error:

Source Error:

Line 215:      <soapExtensionTypes>

Line 217:        <add type="Microsoft.Web.Services2.WebServicesExtension, Microsoft.Web.Services2, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" priority="1" group="0" />

Line 218:      </soapExtensionTypes>

Line 219:    </webServices>

Source File: c:\hosting\webhost4life\member\crugory\symposium.net\web.config Line: 217

Assembly Load Trace: The following information can be helpful to determine why the assembly 'Microsoft.Web.Services2' could not be loaded.

=== Pre-bind state information ===

LOG: DisplayName = Microsoft.Web.Services2, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35

 (Fully-specified)

LOG: Appbase = file:///c:/hosting/webhost4life/member/crugory/symposium.net

LOG: Initial PrivatePath = bin

Calling assembly : (Unknown).

===

LOG: Publisher policy file is not found.

LOG: No redirect found in host configuration file (C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\aspnet.config).

LOG: Using machine configuration file from C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\config\machine.config.

LOG: Post-policy reference: Microsoft.Web.Services2, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35

LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/WINDOWS/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v1.1.4322/Temporary ASP.NET Files/symposium.net/e09a1801/bea532b4/Microsoft.Web.Services2.DLL.

LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/WINDOWS/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v1.1.4322/Temporary ASP.NET Files/symposium.net/e09a1801/bea532b4/Microsoft.Web.Services2/Microsoft.Web.Services2.DLL.

LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///c:/hosting/webhost4life/member/crugory/symposium.net/bin/Microsoft.Web.Services2.DLL.

WRN: Comparing the assembly name resulted in the mismatch: Build Number

I’ve uploaded all the dlls into the bin directory including Microsoft.Web.Services2.dll and System.Web.Services.dll.

Any thoughts?

Tia.

Craig.