R – How to configure SharePoint forms based authentication

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Can someone please tell me how to do the following in SharePoint (WSS 3.0):

Have a user log in (user name and password) on a page and then if correct display the home page of a WSS 3.0 site?

I think it's called forms based authentication.

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Here's a video about using Forms Auth. with WSS3 and here are some samples. Basically, you use the login.aspx page in _layouts to collect credentials and cache them. You have to modify web.config to use the membership provider. More on that here.

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Sounds like a problem with your zones and Alternate Access Mapping (AAM).

Start here: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/03/06/what-every-sharepoint-administrator-needs-to-know-about-alternate-access-mappings-part-1.aspx

R – Windows Sharepoint Services (WSS) and Forms Authentication – Passing those credentials to other ASP.NET Forms Authentication Apps

What is your Forms Authentication Provider?

On Active Directory (for instance) your browser will remember what your authentication was on the first entry site and carry it for you.

Having this on the web.config file of both ASP.NET and SharePoint sites:

    <connectionStrings>
      <add name="ADConnectionString" 
       connectionString=
       "LDAP://testdomain.test.com/CN=Users,DC=testdomain,DC=test,DC=com" />
     </connectionStrings>


<membership defaultProvider="MyADMembershipProvider">
  <providers>
    <add
       name="MyADMembershipProvider"
       type="System.Web.Security.ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider, 
             System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, 
             Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"
       connectionStringName="ADConnectionString"
       connectionUsername="testdomain\administrator" 
       connectionPassword="password"/>
  </providers>
 </membership>

Will ensure they will both use the same authentication providers and therefore once the browser has the information about their identity, it will recycle it accordingly throughout.

Other wise, try a Federation Service.

Here is a tutorial on how to use ADFS

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