If the user comunity is only using IE, you can use NT
challenge / response. You can either create groups or
authenticate the user based on the CGI variable (I
believe Auth_User is the variable name).
This is also more secure as the password is encrypted,
as opposed to Basic authentication.
Pallav
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi there,
> I am working with some developers trying to use
> authentication on a
> web site. Currently we use basic authentication on
> IIS 4.0. When the users
> go to the page, they get a logon box that pops up
> and asks for their
> username and password. They have to enter it in the
> format logon:
> <domain>/username and then password, where domain is
> the domain their
> account is set up in, and username is the name they
> use to access the domain
> and their exchange account. The servers that the
> web sites reside on are in
> their own NT 4.0 domain, and we have trusts set up
> with the 4 other domains
> that users will be connecting from. What we were
> wondering if we could do,
> was to set up a login page, where they actually
> entered their login
> information on the web page, and selected their
> domain from a drop down menu
> box. We have tried using NT authentication, but the
> problem is that if a
> user logs into the domain when they login to their
> computer in the morning
> they automatically get authenticated, and we don't
> want this to happen.
> Anyway, any help that people could offer is much
> appreciated,
>
> Thomas.
>
>
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