Sorry, I should have mentioned that the client is using DHCP.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Maltby [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 04 March 2002 10:48
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: NT authentication
>
> OK - you are gonna have to do two things here - the first is to make sure
> that NT logins are attached to specific IP addresses - so that when a user
> logs in to their machine there's an NT/IP match. Secondly you will have
> to
> create a "set-up" screen so that the "first time" they look at the
> Intranet
> they get a log-in screen doorway. Use this initial "set-up" scenario to
> create an NT/IP password cookie on that machine - so that after this first
> stage they will not have to log-in again if their NT/IP cookie pair
> matches.
> However if they log-into another machine their should not be a matching
> NT/IP cookie set for that user which will "force" them to "set-up"
> again...
> Etc.
>
> Not sure if that's the answer but it seems the easiest solution to me...
>
> J
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Bowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 10:46
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: NT authentication
>
>
> As far as I know, I can only get at CGI.AUTH_USER if we use basic
> authentication. If we use basic authentication, the user will be asked
> for
> a username and password when the home page of the intranet is requested.
> What the client wants is no login at all. We somehow have to pick up the
> user's NT login credentials without the user knowing about it, then pass
> that information to the server.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ian Tait [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 04 March 2002 10:34
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: RE: NT authentication
> >
> > Test for the cgi.AUTH_USER var.
> >
> > Ian
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Paul Bowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 04 March 2002 09:13
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: NT authentication
> >
> >
> > We are building an intranet for a client. The client does not want his
> > users
> > to have to log in to the intranet, but still wants the intranet to be
> > personalised. Is there any way that we can use the NT login credentials
> > to
> > achieve this? What we're thinking of is this: the user will log in to
> > his or
> > her machine, be able to navigate to the home page of the intranet and
> > be
> > presented with personalised web pages. Our problem is how to get the NT
> > login credentials to the server without the user knowing about it. Any
> > help
> > would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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