>Hi all,
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>I'm going deeper into the COM+ world and have a question I couldn't find an answer in the MSDN library and other documentations. BTW: I've read Craig's very good FoxTalk articles about COM+ which can be found in the MSDN lib.. Thanks for that good work, Craig!
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>Now the question: could someone please explain to me, what the first two options in the impersonation level combobox mean?
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>I understand the difference between impersonation, delegetion and not doing these two things. But what does "anonymous" and "identify" exactly mean (hope this is a good translation - I only have German Windows versions here)?
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>IMO they both don't do impersonation. Does anonymous mean, there will be no trusted security for calls to other objects - and does "identify" mean that calls to other objects are being done with the security credentials of the user I've entered in the objects's property sheet?

Anonymous is just that - an unspecified user who inherits the Guest privileges (or the IUSR_machinename or IWAM_machinename depending on circumstance) without requiring further authentication.

Identify allows you to specify a userid and password to use for the connection in all cases, thus inheriting that userid's permissions and privileges.