I believe what you need to do is to run Tomcat behind IIS. Then, in
IIS set the password to challenge/response and set the default domain to
that of your users. Now, when users come to your web site using IE (not
Netscape), IE will perform the login for the user without their
intervention. From Tomcat you should now be able to grab their account with
getRemoteUser.
The real key to this is getting IIS set up so that IE can/will
automatically login the users in.
Randy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel A. Theobald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 1:01 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Determining NT login name
>
>
> We are developing an intranet application to be deployed on a windows
> network. One of the requirements is that the user should not be
> required to login to the website, that their windows login should be
> sufficient.
>
> Does anyone know how to determine the windows username of the remote
> user in a servlet? I know there is some way to do it using ASP, but I
> would rather do this all in java if possible.
>
> javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest.getRemoteUser always seems to
> return null. I guess we will need to make some auto authentication or
> something. Ideas?
>
> thanks in advance,
> theo
>
