WCF - Disabling security in nettcpbinding (c#)

Question

I'm trying to make a self hosted WCF app that uses nettcpbinding but works in an environment without a domain.

It's just two regular windows pc's, one is the server and the other one will be the client. The problem with this is that when I try to get the client to connect it's rejected because of the security settings.

Can you please point me in the right direction as to how I can get this scenario to work?

Should I (if possible) disable security? Is there another (hopefully simple) way to accomplish this?

Regards,

Daniel

Giselegisella

Answer 1

If you'd like to disable security for testing purposes, in the App.config of the WCF project, change the security element to <security mode="None" />, e.g.:

<bindings>
  <netTcpBinding>
    <binding name="netTcpBindingConfig" transferMode="Buffered" maxReceivedMessageSize="5242880">
      <readerQuotas maxArrayLength="5242880" />
      <security mode="None" />
    </binding>
  </netTcpBinding>
</bindings>

If you have a client, update the service reference to sync the security settings. Keep in mind that you should use some level of security in production environments.

Sullins

Thanks for the info. I'll try it out and see how it goes. – Giselegisella