Re: Windows Auth Problem

Hi Walter,

Sorry I took so long to respond. I've been away for a while. Anyway, I
followed your suggestions and got it to work with IE. But something about
this is not right. My IE was already set for "Automatic logon only in
Intranet zone" (the default). But to get it to work on a development server
I had to add http://devserver as a local intranet site. To get it to work
with my web server on my local box I had to add http://localhost as a local
intranet site. That shouldn't be, should it? So it seems Local Intranet
doesn't recognize anything on its own--it only looks in the list I provide.
I would think that if the domain controller/DNS server knows how to find
"devserver" on our local network then it should report that back to IE as
being local intranet. And at the least, it should know that "localhost" is
local... No?

Our network admin is looking into a way to push specific sites to the local
intranet list through an IE policy, although that seems like a kludge. That
also doesn't help the Firefox users. But who cares about them anyway,
right? ;)

If you have any further advice on this please let me know. Thanks.

John



"Walter Wang [MSFT]" <wawang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:H2RyMxvKHHA.2300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi John,

It might not be related to Active Directory settings since you mentioned
that after you input user/password the login is successful.

Another place to check is IE options, Security tab:

When you click on the "Custom Level" button, you will see "User
Authentication" part in the Security Settings dialog: it displays
following
options:

* Anonymous logon
* Automatic logon only in Intranet zone
* Automatic logon with current user name and password
* Prompt for user name and password

The default setting should be second one "Automatic logon only in Intranet
zone". Is it possible that your intranet site isn't recogonized as "Local
intranet"? You can select the "Local intranet" zone and click on button
"Sites" to view/change the settings.

Let me know your findings.


Regards,
Walter Wang (wawang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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