You may receive the error 401-Unauthorized: Access is denied due to invalid credentials when entering your username and password to sign in to Snow License Manager (SLM) using single sign-on (SSO).
This issue can occur when the authentication configuration is incorrect. Check the Windows authentication settings in SLM and IIS, then apply the API authentication configuration described below.
Check the authentication settings
- Open
web.configinC:\Program Files\Snow Software\Snow License Manager\Weband verify that Windows authentication is set totrue. - Set the
UseWindowsAuthenticationkey totrue. - In IIS Manager, select the Snow License Manager site and click Authentication. Verify that Windows Authentication is enabled and Anonymous Authentication is disabled.
- Check the following entries in Feature Delegation:
- Authentication - Anonymous
- Authentication - Basic
- Authentication - Windows
- If you changed any of these settings, run
iisreset. - Verify that the user is configured correctly in Snow Management and Configuration Center (SMACC).
- Verify that the username uses the format
ADDomain\Useraccount. - In SMACC, verify that Password never expires is selected.
Update the API authentication configuration
In web.config, add the following block immediately before the closing </configuration> tag:
<location path="api">
<system.webServer>
<security>
<authentication>
<anonymousAuthentication enabled="true" />
<basicAuthentication enabled="false" />
<windowsAuthentication enabled="false" />
</authentication>
</security>
</system.webServer>
</location>
Save web.config, then restart IIS.
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