Permissions on local net

I am creating a local intranet site to use for reporting and other tasks. Some reports should only be accessed by certain people. We are using a Windows 2003 based network. I'd like users to be able to use the site with their same login credentials. (ie if a user logs in to their computer as joe schmoe, I would like them to access the website as joe schmoe without any further login prompts.

Is this possible and/or how do I set this up? I've been playing around with the IIS settings and I cant seem to get it right, it seem to access files and such as the ASPNET user. Is there some setting I should have in the web.config file?

For now, the IIS is version 5.0 because it's ran in a Windows 2000 server...would it be eaiser to move the site to an IIS 6.0 server?If you're using a domain, the recommended way to do this is by using Windows Authentication (in the web.config file you can specify this by means of the <authentication mode="Windows" /> setting). Furthermore, if you want the files on the file system to be access under the context of the logged in user you'll need to enable impersonation (<impersonation enabled="true" />). To get this to work, you webserver should be at least a member server in the domain. However, I'd recommend to move to IIS 6 if you can for better ASP.NET integration and better security/performance.
With this, I get a configuration error:

Parser Error Message: Unrecognized configuration section 'impersonation'
Line 48: <impersonation enabled="true" /
Did you mean:
<identity impersonate="true" />
instead?

I have it set up with <identity impersonate="true" /> and in IIS, Anonymous access is unchecked along with everything else except Integrated Windows authentication.

However, when I attempt to create a file on a network share I get a prompt for a username and password even though the account I'm logged in as has administrator permission and full control over that share. the only way I can continue from this prompt is by enterent the full domain/username and password.

Both the server and client are members of the domain (we're in a single domain environment)

Persistant Data For All Users

I have a pretty long list of results that will be accessed from an MSSQL database quite often from my users. I'm looking into options that will help optimize the time it takes to return this data. I'm looking into Singletons but wanted to know what other types of tricks there might be out there. I'd like to cache this data programmatically so that I can force a data refresh, or have a data refresh happen every time it is accessed beyond a certain age. Are there any good articles out there that might prove helpful?

The specifics of the data shouldn't matter too much, but it will be a list of objects I define.

AceCorban:

I'd like to cache this data programmatically so that I can force a data refresh, or have a data refresh happen every time it is accessed beyond a certain age

I do exactly this using singletons

Another way to do this is to use the Application object which is in scope for every page executing within an application. Seehttp://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/111000-1.shtml for examples. This is probably the easier than the singleton method since asp.net builds it in.

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Caching in ASP.NET

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