I have umbraco GUI running and performing great thus far. I had a new requirement a while back where I was asked to display currently browsing user's name on the screen. We have this GUI running in intranet so I don't have any special login going on. I wnated to just grab the user's windows userid by using HTTPContext.Current.User object.

In order to do that, I removed anonymous acces on IIS setting and enabled Integrated windows authentication. In web.config file I put authentication= windows.

Still I wasn't able to get the correct user id of browsing users. I was getting Network Service account as my currently browsed users. Then, I put identity impersonate=true in my web.config and all the sudden I got correct userid of the user who is browsing the web. That's Good ---

However, now I have to give each user access to the folders within my web server to be able to upload media files, temp folder, etc. This is not right! Why do I need to put identity impersonate = true????? Is there any other way I can make this work? Please, help!!!!