I would like to be able to show tabs based on Windows Authentication, so when someone is an Administrator they can see the "admin" tab, etc...

I am in the Administrators group but cannot see the tab at the top of the page.

Is there anything that I can do to fix this or do you HAVE to use Forms-based authentication in order to delegate users/roles and tabs?

Thank you in advance for any help

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-Nick

Hi,

I'm not sure what you mean by tabs. That's something you'd have to code in your app.

In general, to see if a user is a member of a group, you'd do something like this:

If User.IsInRole("Administrators") Then
' Do Something
End If

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--Brian Desmond
Windows Server MVP - Directory Services
http://www.briandesmond.com

Thank you for your reply, let me try to be a little more specific about my problem

When using forms-based authentication, if a user logs in and is in the "admins" group he/she see's an "admins" tab at the top of the page which allows them to modify the roles of users, add/delete tabs from the pages, change page layouts, etc..

I am a member of the Administrators group on the domain, but when I use Windows-based authentication and view the page, I see now "admins" tab where I can adjust site settings based on windows groups/roles. I would like to do this so that only people in certain groups will be able to see certain tabs (I would essentially like it to operate the way the forms-based authentication with roles does, but I do not want to have to have anyone log in again.)

Just wondering if this is possible any way, and if so, if I can get pointed in the right direction to get started.

Thanks again, and in advance

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-Nick

I think that I neglected to mention I am working with the IBuySpy portal kit. I appologize, I was under the impression that this whole forum was about that since it was linked off the IBuySpy website.

I appologize for any confusion

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-Nick