Why does HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name return blank

Question

I created a site. It is an internal site. It is a .NET 4.0 site. I would like to grab the username using HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name of the person browsing the

Answer 1

It comes up blank when unauthenticated. You can verify this by also doing:

HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.IsAuthenticated

Check your authentication level in IIS, is it set to enable windows authentication there too?