Re: Authentication prompt keeps appearing when using Anonymous access
From: Stephen L Nicoud (nicouds@hotmail.com)
Date: 05/31/02
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Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 07:52:42 -0700 From: Stephen L Nicoud <nicouds@hotmail.com>
This is a Frequently Asked Question.
Q225234 - OFF2000: User Prompted for Password When Opening Office
Documents in Browser
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q225/2/34.ASP
Richard wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I have a 'minor' issue which I've not been able to get to
> the bottom of.
>
> I have two domains A and B. A contains Worldwide intranet
> server, B contains user accounts from another region who
> require access to domain A. Basically, clients from domain
> B constantly receive the "Enter Network Password...Please
> enter your authentication information" where a logon and
> pwd is required. They are accessing a URL on our intranet
> server which contains a link to a Word (.doc) document and
> calls up the document within the IE browser. If you
> select 'cancel' on this without entering any credentials
> the page eventually appears. This is somewhat annoying to
> users when constantly being prompted, and ideally no logon
> credentials should be required as this is a corporate
> intranet and access is internal (e.g. not via proxy,
> firewalls etc). In terms of permissions, I have applied
> the anonymous user account (IUSR_computername), Read and
> Execute permissions to the specific files and respective
> folders in the link. My understanding is that if the
> anonymous user account was applied, then access should be
> granted regardless of whether the client requests are
> coming in from an untrusted domain, after all, this is how
> many requests on the internet work. The actual web site
> has the anonymous user account applied via IIS security
> also. There are no issues with IUSR account, e.g. not
> locked out, has log on locally right etc, but constantly
> get a prompt for authentication. * One interesting point,
> I dumped a standard .txt file in folder relative to URL,
> and amending the URL to call up the .txt file instead of
> the .doc file worked first time without any prompt! I
> don't understand why only .doc does this. I assume this
> may be the case with .xls and other office extensions? is
> this something to do with calling up an office file within
> a browser, e.g. some perms problem? I suspect this is
> something simple, but causing many hours of testing, and
> yet can't get rid of this annoying authentication prompt.
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