Hi folks,
I am using DNN 4.4.1 in an Intranet setting with additional network access through a VPN. I have been doing AD authentication for a while now and have pretty well got intranet auto-authentication working on my production portal. On my development portal, where I test new functionality, I have had good success with auto authentication and auto login especially in the intranet realm. Where I am encountering issues is when I try to make all this work with myVPN from SonicWall (SSL-VPN appliance). It uses the NetExtender client and once configured, allows auto-login using AD network credentials. But there are a few glitches that need to be worked out to be ready for the production server.
A. First, the auto-login seems to timeout after 60 minutes, even when I extend the timeout period to something much longer in two places in the web.config file. Beyond that time, The windows Server pop-up authentication dialogue requires me to log into the server again. I understand that this is handled by a cookie but I can't seem to find a way to extend this period.
B. Second, If I log out of the website after auto-login, the cookie seems to reset itself to unauthenticated and trying to authenticate against AD generates an error and no longer works unless the cookie is deleted. Accounts such as admin and host plus any manually registered work fine however.
C. A third issue I have encountered is that the Auto-login seems to auto authenticate to one particular AD account, even if I log out, delete the cookie, restart the computer , reconnect across the VPN with a different account and even use a different account on the workstation. Is there something in DNN that keeps track of the network card on instance of windows and reverts to a default account even if the log-in is to another account?
Looking forward to any possible help :>)
Hal