Re: Random NT authenticaiton requests

From: Paul Lynch (paul.lynch@ntlworld.com)
Date: 09/03/02 

From: Paul Lynch <paul.lynch@ntlworld.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 17:22:21 +0100

On Tue, 3 Sep 2002 07:56:48 -0700, "Travis" <NOSPAM@vynsc.com> wrote:

>I have a change management application running on a
>Windows2000 sp2 IIS server with NT Authentication
>enabled. The only clients that experience a problem are
>WindowsXP with IE 6.0. There are also NT 4.0/IE 5.5
>clients that have no problems. Authentication is used to
>identify the remote users and automatically load their
>user profile.
>
>95% of the time it works fine. However, sometimes when
>you have the IE 6.0 browser sitting on one of the sub
>pages for an extended period of time and click on a link,
>the user gets prompted to login. Regardless of the
>information that is typed (whether it be a valid local or
>domain user and whether the domain is specified or not)
>IIS will not accept the request.
>
>It appears as though XP/IE no longer passes on the
>authentication correctly or IIS no longer wants to accept
>requests from the users (as if a timeout of some sort has
>occured). The only fix I have discovered so far is to
>open a new IE process.
>
>Has anyone encounted this type of problem? It could very
>well be a client-side issue with IE/XP but at this point I
>really have no idea. Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Travis

ASP Session Timeout Perhaps ?

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q253146&

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q233477

http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2066

http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2265

HTH,

Paul Lynch
MCSE

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