Hi,

I am using forms authentication in my web application and ActiveDirectory membership providers.

I am using a login control and a login status control. The authentication seems to be working correctly  but the text in the loginstatus control does not change to "logout", it still says "login".

It works correctly when i run it from VS 2005 but does not work after deploying. IIS authentication is set to "allow anonymous access".

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks 

Hello,

Where are you deploying your project? Make sure database is also attached with your deployed project.
Because, In asp.net 2.0 memberships are stored in SQL Server 2005 Express Edition.

Make sure your membership database (ASPNETDB.MDF) will exist on "App_Data" folder.

 

Hi

Thanks for the reply.

I am not using SQL server express to store memberships instead connecting to a Active Directory store using the LDAP connection string.

More over the application does not have app_data folder but it works when i run it from VS 2005, its only when i open it from IIS, it doesnt work.

thanks

ramya.prasad:

Hi,

I am using forms authentication in my web application and ActiveDirectory membership providers.

I am using?a login control and a login status control. The?authentication seems to be working correctly ?but the text in the loginstatus control does not change to "logout", it still says "login".

Hi,

I checked the identity like you said,

well... looks like User.Identity.Name even after authentication is empty. This is a bit confusing because, in the login control's authenticate event, i am checking for the validity of the user, here is the line of code:

    protected void login_Authenticate(object sender, AuthenticateEventArgs e)
    {
        if (Membership.ValidateUser(login.UserName, login.Password))
        {
            e.Authenticated = true;
            FormsAuthentication.RedirectFromLoginPage(login.UserName, false);
        }
        else
        {
            e.Authenticated = false;
        }
    }

It does validate the user because it redirects me to the correct url and morover if i type in the wrong username or password, i get login error which looks good. But once the user is authenticated and goes to the default page the Identity is empty and the User.Identity.IsAuthentcated is showing as false.

Anything missng in this?