All,

Is there a way to allow anonymous access to a DNN intranet website yet still be able to get the visitors network ID using server.requestvariables["auth_user"]?  Normally I'd set authentication to allow anonymous in IIS for a site like this but I don't think DNN likes that.  My site looks to get caught in an infinite loop when I disable all authentication types other than windows.

The purpose of getting the network ID is to look up the visitors name in my database so I can produce a message like "Welcome back Mark!". 

Thanks,

Mark

Patrick,

Maybe using anonymous wasn't the best choice of words so let me explain in more detail.

I'd like my employees to freely move about my DNN intranet but have their network ID exposed so I can grab it and display a "welcome Back Mark!" message at the top on the home page. That's why I need their network ID - I have a database with employee information and can retreive it based on their network ID. The same could probably be done using AD but I'd prefer using my SQL Server database to get their name.

The only other group of people that need to access the intranet would be content editors and approvers although I'm not using AD or my SQL Server database to authenticate them. My goal is to create a user in DNN for each of these employees, assign them to either group (editor or approver) and then pass the credentials to them. So these users would be within the DNN site itself.

Does that help? Is this possible w/o AD authentication?

Thanks,
Mark