HttpContext Current User Identity Name is Empty

Question

I have a Silverlight application  using MVC  and when i m building in visual studio  using Visual Studio Development center  there s no problem  the HttpContext Current User Identity Name has a Value  But when i m using the same project with IIS 7 5  i m using Windows 7   HttpContext Current User Identity Name stays empty  Anyone who can help  Or knows where i can find the settings from the visual studio Development center  so i can check what s wrong in IIS

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Apart from all obvious reasons mentioned earlier, there might be another one: you didn't put an Authorize attribute on top of your controller, like that:

[Authorize(Roles = "myRole")]
[EnableCors(origins: "http://localhost:8080", headers: "*", methods: "*", SupportsCredentials = true)]
public class MyController : ApiController

At least that's what worked for me.

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The browser will only detect your username if the IIS server is on the same domain and the security settings within your group policy allow it   Otherwise you will have to provide it with credentials  but if it is not on the same domain  it will not be able to authenticate you

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Also  especially if you are a developer  make sure that you are in fact connecting to the IIS server and not to the IIS Express that comes with Visual Studio  If you are debugging a project  it s just as easy if not easier sometimes to think you are connected to IIS when you in fact aren t    Even if you ve enabled Windows Authentication and disabled Anonymous Authentication on IIS  this won t make any difference to your Visual Studio simulation

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As  PaulTheCyclist says  If using IISExpress anonymous authentication is enabled by default  windows authentication is disabled   This can be changed in what I m sure used to be called PropertyPages  NOT right-click -  properties   Select the web project

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Try enabling basic authentication and disabling the other authentications in IIS  then try launching the application  The application will ask for windows credentials  Enter the same and the app should be able to get the name under HttpContext Current User Identity Name

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Disabling all other options in authentication tab of iis except windows authentication resolved my issue  Please check    Steps     Open iis in your machine Select your application from the application pool Click on authentication option Disable all other option except windows authentication  Anonimous authentication should be disabled    Please check this and let me know the feedback  It worked for me  hope it will work for you also

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I struggled with this problem the past few days  I suggest reading Scott Guthrie s blog post Recipe  Enabling Windows Authentication within an Intranet ASP NET Web application For me the problem was that although I had Windows Authentication enabled in IIS and I had  lt authentication mode  quot Windows quot    gt  in the  lt system web gt  section of web config  I was not preventing anonymous access  This last part was the key  You need to prevent anonymous access to ensure that the browser sends the credentials  You can either configure IIS in Control Panel so that your site  or machine  uses Windows authentication and denies anonymous access or you can add the following to your web config in the system web section   lt authentication mode  quot Windows quot    gt    lt authorization gt      lt deny users  quot   quot   gt   lt  authorization gt

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These might resolve the issue It did for me   In IIS Express change the project property values   Anonymous Authentication  and  Windows Authentication   To do this  when project is selected  press F4 and then change these properties     In case you are deploying it on IIS locally  make sure local machines  Windows Authentication  feature is enabled and  Anonymous Authentication  is disabled    Refer to   https   grekai wordpress com 2011 03 31 httpcontext-current-user-identity-name-is-empty

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In addition to    answered Mar 28  11 at 12 27Bryan Bedard   In case that the solution doesn t work  you have to enable Windows Authentication in iss manager  How to do that   1 To start IIS Manager from the Run dialog box  On the Start menu  click All Programs  click Accessories  and then click Run  In the Open box  type inetmgr and then click OK   2 In the Connections pane  expand the server name  expand Sites  and go to the level in the hierarchy pane that you want to configure  and then click the Web site or Web application  3  Scroll to the IIS section in the Home pane  and then double-click Authentication   4 In the Authentication pane  select Anonymous Authentication  and then click Disable     In the Authentication pane  select Windows Authentication  and then click Enable    Reference

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I also had this problem recently  Working with a new client  trying to get a an old web forms app running from Visual Studio  with IISExpress using Windows Authentication  For me  the web config was correctly configured However  the IISExpress config settings file had   lt windowsAuthentication enabled  quot false quot  gt   The user account the developer was logged in was very new  so unlikely it had been edited  Simple fix it turned out  change this to enabled true and it all ran as it should then

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