After some research I came to the following conclusion:
MapGuide Enterprise doesn't offer you the possibility to secure WMS-layers. So normally they are accessible for everyone that knows the url http://<name of server>/mapguide(X)/mapagent/mapagent.fcgi
So what I tried was to secure the WMS on the webserver level, we at the Belgian Railways are using Windows 2K3 servers with IIS.
<span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;'>1/</span> I disabled the option anonymous access
2/ I checked the option use windows authentication (so this means that the users that want to use the wms service need an account on the windows domain.
3/ When you want to use the wms as a supplementary layer in another MGE map (for example an ajax viewer or fusion viewer) you also have to provide credentials of a domain user. You have to keep in mind that in companies there's a policy that users have to reset their passwords after a month. So maybe you can ask for a domainuser for which the password doesn't expire.
4/ For external users (not part of the domain) <b>we'll have </b>to write a wms server as a wrapper around the MGE webservice. Users have to authenticate to access the wrapper, the MGE WMS can use the user account defined in step 3.
So I hope this can be helpful for some of you experimenting with WMS Services.
Kind regards,
M.<div class="signature"><b>Matthias Valcke</b>
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CAD/GIS Consultant Belgian Railways (NMBS - SNCB)
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