Re: Secured page (Challenge/Response) not accessible by some

From: Thomas Deml [MS] (thomad@online.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/19/02


From: "Thomas Deml [MS]" <thomad@online.microsoft.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 23:46:34 -0700


Brian,

Windows authentication doesn't work over proxies. Windows auth needs and end
to end connection. As soon as there is a proxy involved it breaks.

Can you have a look at the following article:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q264921

Hope this helps,

--
Thomas Deml
Lead Program Manager
Internet Information Services
Microsoft Corp.
"Brian Haddock" <bhaddock@tnpe.com> wrote in message
news:9e3dcc26.0210171244.9154aaa@posting.google.com...
> We have a secured page on our external web server (IIS 5) that is
> accessible by most of our employees (IE 6) but some are repeatedly
> prompted for the username/password and are unable to access it.  The
> persons that are having problems are not behind a proxy and are in
> fact, at the same location (same network) as other employees that
> experience no problems at all.  I see nothing in the security event
> log for the persons trying to login that would indicate they are
> missing their password.  All persons are members of the same security
> group (that is allowed access to this section of the site).
>
> The IIS log shows the following:
>
> 01:32:40 192.168.99.99  () W3SVC3 WEB-SERV 192.168.89.89 80 GET
> /securepage - 401 5 4843 862 0
>
> Note the empty parenthesis () where the username would be.  The 401
> return code looks right the *first time* they hit it but these people
> receive the 401 over and over again.  Typically we see the 401
> followed by a 302 (temporary redirect) and then the 200 (OK).
>
> Challenge/Response is the only authentication method allowed -
> anonymous and Basic are turned off.
>
> Any ideas?  Anything they could be setting on the client side that
> would cause this?


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