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Martin Larsson
Martin Larsson

Reputation: 720

Change domain when authenticating with IE8

When I try to login to our WSS demo site the authentication popup forces me to use the domain I'm currently using on my local computer. The WSS site does not have the same domain.

I'm running IE8 on Windows 7. How do I change the domain!?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 14328

Answers (2)

Chase Oliphant
Chase Oliphant

Reputation: 389

Posting this answer in case others stumble upon the same search with the same problem.

If you have an Azure VM and you did not establish a domain for the VM but the Windows Security popup is defaulting to your Windows Authentication credentials. You can omit the domain by using

"...\[yourLoginName]"

where [yourLoginName] is the VM username that you initially setup in Azure.

Upvotes: 1

Martin Larsson
Martin Larsson

Reputation: 720

One of my collegues helped me and now I feel like an idiot!

In IE8 the authentication popup first wants you to login as your domain user but you also have the choice to "Use another account". When clicking that choice your local domain is displayed below the texbox like "Domain: LOCALDOMAIN". And when you start typing "MYDOMAIN\xyz" in the username box it changes to "Domain: MYDOMAIN"!

Simple as that!

You will have to type the domain name in ALL CAPITALS, otherwise it does not take it

Upvotes: 7

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