WCF and Kerberos

Have question concerning WCF and Kerberos Security.

We are on-site for a large customer architecting a service-based solution
that will implement WCF.

The customer is a large hotel chain that desires a back-office solution that
can run in stand-alone mode at each hotel property. These properties
normally connect to a centralized data center, which houses the Active
Directory servers, but 100% connectivity cannot be guaranteed.

We are considering proposing a SmartClient solution with a local database
and application server (for services) at each property. We would like to
implement our service layer using WCF with WSHttpBinding with a
clientCredentialType of "Windows" so that we can leverage Kerberos security.

Question: When a hotel is not connected to the centralized data center, can
we depend on the credential caches in the local clients and servers to
support Kerberos authentication for our services?

Answered (sort of) in the aspnet.webservices group.

Please don't post the message twice to two difference groups. Just crosspost
is accordingly, so that followups are seen correctly...

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Chris Mullins

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