KneetrixSet
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Is there any way to use webforms cookie based authentication if the machine name has an _ in it?This is for a kiosk application which it's now been decided should be networked, I have remote access but I don't want to rename the machine as it's in South Africa and I'm in the UK so recovery from an error could be tricky.We did the testing using localhost (doh!) before we shipped it so I missed this.I can fix it by getting the kiosk machine set to a fixed IP address and getting someone to edit the hosts file on the client PCs to give it an alias with no underscore, but this will mean that if they add a new PC they'll need to remember to do this. I think that my client doesn't have a local DNS server and are using a basic ADSL router for their network .So is there anything clever I can do with the cookie at the asp.net end so I don't have to edit the hosts file everywhere?On the plus side today I learnt that underscore in machine names running asp.net is a bad idea.