The caller was not authenticated by the service.

Question

HI ALL I have WCF services and web application my issue is I am getting this error when i called the service from application. Message=The caller was not authenticated by the service. Source=mscorlib StackTrace: Server stack trace: at System.ServiceModel.Security.IssuanceTokenProviderBase`1.DoNegotiation(TimeSpan timeout) WCF service hosted on same domain and it is working fine. I hosted same web application on another machine there it is working. Please let me know what confiuration I need to change on the machin. Thanks.

Tulasi · Answer

Please see the deployement consideration in the following link http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff650619.aspx

Tulasi · Answer

try to run the client application in wcfservice hosted machine. (it means both service and client should be in same machine) see this link i t may useful for u to test it.

Khan Abrar Ahmed · Answer

Both machine in the same domain.

Tulasi · Answer

Hi Are the client and service on the same domain? Also turn on WCF trace on the server to check any internal errors. User cannot be authenticated means : the client and the server are not on the same windows domain.

Khan Abrar Ahmed · Answer

Hi I m using windows authentication the problem is same service and same application is working on one test server with same settings but when I deploy the application on another machine then it is giving the error. here is my web.config files Web config binding from application Service Web config file bypassProxyOnLocal=false transactionFlow=false hostNameComparisonMode=StrongWildcard maxBufferPoolSize=2147483647 maxReceivedMessageSize=2147483647 messageEncoding=Text textEncoding=utf-8 useDefaultWebProxy=true allowCookies=false> --> http://tst/_vti_bin/Lists.asmx Thanks for your help.

Tulasi · Answer

Hi Could you please show your config file . have u used windows authentication to authenticate clients ?

The caller was not authenticated by the service."