Load balancing and session state

[Dstl Web Team]

We are currently migrating from NT to AD2003

Users are complete but not all servers including web servers which
maintain a trust from their NT domain.

Web is delivered through 2 win2003 load balancers with files on win2k
cluster.

When sites are delivered through the balanced iis6 instance Windows
integrated authenticatiuon cannot be used and web applications have
trouble maintaining session state.

When sites are delivered straight from the iis5 instance on the win2k
cluster everything works fine.

Is this because the web servers are not in the Active Directory yet?

Any help gratefully received, this ones giving us a real headache.

Thanks

 

[Brian Desmond [MVP]]

If you setup NLB to use stick sessions, you should be fine as far as session
state goes. The other option here, if you're using ASP.Net is to setup a
state server.

As far as integrated auth, joining the boxes to the domain should straighten
that out.

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