Forms Authentication with Server Farm

[Dan Key]

I have an ASP application that is 100% stateless and runs
on a 5 servers using a local director to load balance.
All session info is pulled from a DB. Would forms
authentication be fesaible as I migrate this to ASPX? Can
authentication information be passed\utilized accross the
server farm?

 

[Holly Mazerolle]

Hi,
Forms authentication would work for you and all you need to do in a
farmed situation is make sure that all of the servers in the farm have
identical machine keys in the machine.config. See the following articles:

312906 HOW TO: Create Keys by Using Visual C# .NET for Use in Forms
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=312906

308157 HOW TO: Implement Forms-Based Authentication in Your ASP.NET
Application
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=308157

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Holly