With windows authentication, The trust relationship between the primary domain and the trusted domain failed, when calling IsInRole

Question

I have my asp.net web server setup to use windows authentication.

It is authenticating just fine with my current logged in user.

I can verify this by viewing ...

HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name

And I can verify that I am authenticated by viewing...

HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.IsAuthenticated

However, when I call the .IsInRole function I get the trust relationship error...

HttpContext.Current.User.IsInRole("accounting")

I have found online references to problems with supplying domain name with the role name (domain\accounting), but I still get the same error. Any suggestions on where to look or troubleshoot the problem?

Answer 1

Well, it seems that if you are referencing a Role that doesn't exist then you get the trusted domain error.

The error went away and the code functioned just fine when I changed from ...

HttpContext.Current.User.IsInRole("accounting") 

to the actual group name ...

HttpContext.Current.User.IsInRole("rsi_accounting")