ASP.NET MVC Windows Authentication is displaying login prompt instead of logging me in

Question

Based on this article I've created a basic ASP.NET MVC site using the Visual Studio 2013 Intranet Site template with the default settings and changing nothing.

When running the site in debug mode instead of logging me in and displaying my domain\username, I am getting prompted to enter my username/password in a Authentication Required dialog.

I was under the impression, since I am already authenticated against the domain, I should be logged straight into the application using my AD account without having to enter in anything. When I do try explicitly entering my AD name or a local user account, nothing is accepted.

EDIT

If I type in my username/password with Firefox I am authenticated, but not with Chrome and IE.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

What you're encountering is something that's frustrated me about windows authentication for a long time. Internet explorer has a feature called pass-through authentication that authenticates you automatically when using windows auth. Other browsers have work arounds: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/integrated-auth-for-firefox/ .

It's up to the sys admins to implement those measures for the other browsers, but nobody ever does, so we get stuck typing in our full usernames and passwords in every browser but IE.

What you can do is follow this approach : http://blogs.msdn.com/b/chunliu/archive/2010/09/21/creating-a-custom-login-page-for-windows-authentication.aspx

Not nearly as simple as enabling windows auth, or even implementing forms auth for that matter, but consider a scenario where you want infrastructure to manage permissions and administer user accounts, or if you want to expose your login page globally without exposing AD.