CE (ACNS 5.1) LDAP (ADS) Authentication

[mark.duffy]

I had a conversation with a customer that went along the lines of "ohh and XP is much better than windows 2000 because it only asks you to authenticate once, not per proxy (ie once on HTTP and once HTTPS)"

He said no it still asks me twice, the only difference I could see on the face of it was his machine is SP2 and mines SP1 with no local security profile changes.

I'm trying to get to the Nirvana of as near single sign on as possible (which I know is not currently possible with LDAP/XP/IE etc...)

Has anybody else had any similar experiences shine any light on it?

Thanks

Mark

[didyap]

From what I know, the authentication is based onthe IE settings and whether NTLM is turned on for single sign on. You can also set the authentication cache expiration in the CE to expire sooner. Following is a document that might help you understand Content authentication and authorization.

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/webscale/uce/acns51/cache51/conauth.htm#1204894

[mark.duffy]

Just thought I'd update this thread, turns our the solution was much simpler than that. The recent install I'd done is where I'd adopted binding Http/https/ftp all to the same incoming proxy port ie 8080.

ergo it only asks you to authenticate once!

regards

Mark