NTLM is the traditional way to do this in a windows environment. However, one of the modules that allows you to pass a username and password to a special page and auto login might also meet your needs.<div><br></div><div>
(Beware that NTLM works in IE but is opt in for Firefox).<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Fred Jones <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fredthejonester@gmail.com">fredthejonester@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I have a request to make an icon on for a Windows desktop which would<br>
launch a browser (or extra tab I guess) and also log the person in. I<br>
am not a Windows programmer (not even a user) but in theory, is this<br>
even possible?<br>
<br>
This client has Active Directory and he also asked about integrating<br>
that. For that, I see there is an ldap-based solution[1] which I think<br>
could work. I found <a href="http://drupal.org/project/webserver_auth" target="_blank">http://drupal.org/project/webserver_auth</a> but I<br>
don't know how this works precisely. I am just wondering if we could<br>
get automatic Windows user authentication into Drupal, then a simple<br>
link to their site would log them in.<br>
<br>
The server is remote and is Linux, but I think these solutions work on<br>
a Linux server.<br>
<br>
Any ideas?<br>
<br>
Thanks.<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="http://pasada.org/integrating-drupal-active-directory" target="_blank">http://pasada.org/integrating-drupal-active-directory</a><br>
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