Hello

I have got AD authentication to work on my testsite in this way:

AD users who place the site on the intranet get access to the portal without any login-box, but have to manually log into the site itself (with DNN login) with the AD credentials.

I have read a few posts in this forum and I got a bit confused as to what different people mean with autologin. Some seem to imply that if you get to where I am, that is automatic login, that is: the site is restricted to AD users and if they open the site on IE with the right credentials they get there without a login-box. To me it feels like I have one more step to go since I really want ppl to end up authenticated with the DNN site aswell.

Does anyone have any tips as to what I have missed?
I asked in another thread about how secure the query that DNN makes to the AD is, and I repeap it here: does username and password get sent from the DNN portal unencrypted and in plain-text, or through a secure channel?

Any pointers would be great.
Best regards
Torbjörn

Thanx Dan for clearing that up abit.

I am stuck at the thing you call true integrated mode, which I cannot get to work. I have the site in local intranet and I have checked the IIS logs and seen that my domain\username was the user that requested the page. In the webconfig I have only changed the stuff that was mentioned in the "walkthrough" such as: uncommenting the reference to add Name="Authentication"............
I also have <identity impersonate = "true"/> uncommented.

However the line below is commented out ,ive seen no reference as to this line being uncommented but I assumed that that is what I want, if I uncomment it and remove the authenticate mode="forms" line the site comes into an endless loop and refreshes and redirects over and over.

<authentication mode="Windows"></authentication>

Do I need to change the webconfig so that the line above is uncommented and comment out the line with the forms reference? In that case what else do I need to change to not end up in an endless redirect-loop?

Thanx in advance
Torbjörn

Regarding my question about this section below, it feels abit odd that the config should still be set to forms login, when there is an option for windows mode? What is the theoretical difference between theese two? (setting my portal to windows mode, gets me the lockup described in an earier post with endless redirects)

authentication mode="Forms">forms name=".DOTNETNUKE" protection="All" timeout="60" cookieless="UseCookies" />authentication>identity impersonate="true"/><authentication mode="Windows">-->

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Best regards
Torbjörn

I have tried with the <identity> line commented but then the admin-->authentication wont work at all. With the <identity> line uncommented its works fine, and the dnn site authenticates AD user, but not with autologin, they have to manually login through the login link (which feels like a regular FORM login to me). So getting the DNN site to recognize AD users has never been an issue.