On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Joe Heaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ... application authentication, and I'm not sure what exactly that is ...

  P.S.: "Application authentication" would be something which does not
use any facilities provided by Microsoft Windows.

  If you use NTLM, "Integrated Windows Authentication", etc., you're
using a Windows facility.  If you use Active Directory as the backend
authentication database, that's using a Windows facility.

  If you write your own HTML password form and server-side script
(e.g., ASP), and keep a table of users in a MySQL database, you're not
using a Windows facility.  That would be what "application
authentication" usually refers to.

  This is mostly academic, as Microsoft's license agreement does not
make a distinction between the two types.

-- Ben

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