We're trying to implement several kiosks that we've had running for years under a normal user account - we're trying to shift to using Windows Kiosk mode for a little bit of additional hardening.
I found the documentation on setting up a DirectLink user, and by all means it seems to work great - in Chrome alone. I was pulling my hair out for a while as all of my Orion views were still requiring authorization, but I've confirmed that I can't directly access any views at all without being logged in when using Microsoft Edge.
I know Chrome has a separate kiosk mode, and although I don't really want to go that route (the kiosk mode is achieved by an overlay with a standard Windows user still logged in), I will if we have no other options.
Does anyone have a fix to make the DirectLink user appropriately authenticate using Edge?
EDIT - added this as a comment but I'm moving it to the main body of the question.
Forgot to add:
- using MS Edge 117.0.2045.55, 64-bit in Windows 11 boxes
- using Orion Platform 2020.2.5 on a Windows Server 2019 box
- after a little further testing: it doesn't actually appear that a valid account must be used, only that there is some sort of authentication attempt. I just tried to sign in with user "a" without password (which is not an established user in our environment) and then was immediately kicked in to the DirectLink view.
My main goal is to prevent that logon requirement in Edge so we can appropriately use these machines as kiosks.
