Best practice for extranet users

[James]

We want to give access to regional staff across the country to a database
that only supports Windows Authentication.
The staff should only see data from their own region. So the database needs
to know who exactly the user is, so that it filters out the data accordingly.

We do not have a nationwide Windows network, so we cannot use IIS Windows
Auth.

Assuming we'd be using Forms Auth, how can we pass on the user identity to
this database? In other words, how can we assign each individual user to a
unique Windows account that would uniquely identify the user to the database?

(The database is MS Analysis Services)

[[MSFT]]

Hello,

For such a situation, Form authentication seems to be the only choice. Here
is a article about how valid windows account within Form Authentication:

How to authenticate against the Active Directory by using Forms
authentication and Visual C# .NET
[url]http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q316748[/url]

After the authentication, we need impersonate current user's account to
access the database. Here is an article about this:

INFO: Implementing Impersonation in an ASP.NET Application
[url]http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q306158[/url]

Hope this help,

Luke

[James]

Looks like what I'm looking for, I'll try it out.
Thanks.

"[MSFT]" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> For such a situation, Form authentication seems to be the only choice. Here
> is a article about how valid windows account within Form Authentication:
>
> How to authenticate against the Active Directory by using Forms
> authentication and Visual C# .NET
> [url]http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q316748[/url]
>
> After the authentication, we need impersonate current user's account to
> access the database. Here is an article about this:
>
> INFO: Implementing Impersonation in an ASP.NET Application
> [url]http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q306158[/url]
>
> Hope this help,
>
> Luke
>
>

[[MSFT]]

You are welcome. If there is further questions, please feel free to post
here.

Luke