WCF: The request for security token could not be satisfied because authentication failed

Question

I have written a very simple WCF Service that sends and receives messages. I have tested the app through the VS 2008 default web server host and everything works fine. But w

Answer 1

You don't actually need to turn off security and in some cases you shouldn't. Within a bindingConfiguration, you can specify message level security that does not establish a security context as follows:

Note the establishSecurityContext attribute. Both the client and service should have a security configuration with establishSecurityContext set to the same value. A value of true also works fine but false is recommended in an environment where the servers are load balanced.