OWA domain\username question

[lifegard2]

Hello,

I'm trying to make it so that my users do not have to enter their username in the format domain\username when logging into our Exchange 2003 server through OWA. Ideally, I'd like them to be able to just login with username.

I'm running a single Exchange server.

I've gone into ESM under Admin Groups>GroupName>Servers>ServerName>Protocols>HTTP>Exchange Virtual Server>Exchange and changed the authentication to Basic with our default domain plugged in there. I've tried our domain name as a netbios name and as a fqdn (domain.local). No joy.

I suspect this is because the mail server is server.domain.local instead of server.domain.com. I chose .local as our top level domain instead of .com. Internally, if I navigate to

http://server.domain.local/exchange,

I can login with just the username. But if I go to our public fqdn, I need domain\username to get in.

Any ideas?

Do I need to set this server up as a front-end server to make this work? If so, can I set it up as a front-end to connect to a back-end on the same box? Maybe I need the GC installed on this particular server instead of the other servers in the org? Any thoughts?

 

[Zelandakh]

Just one and his name is Henrik Walther.

http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/OWA2003Forms-based-Authentication-default-domain.html

 

[skialta]

If you set it up for forms based authentication, you can then modify the html code to automatically plugin the domain in front of the username. Check out this article:

http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Customizing-OWA-2003-Forms-Based-Authentication-Logon.html

 

[lifegard2]

I know it's a good idea, but is SSL required to be enabled if I use FBA? Eventually I want to use SSL, but not at this time. One small change at a time.

 

[Freedom99]

Take the time and implement SSL - It is a big deal. I have learned first hand and Walther's guide is excellent.