Viewing Word Documents

From: cdmsf01@attglobal.net
Date: 03/23/03


From: <cdmsf01@attglobal.net>
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 14:35:34 -0500


I would like to be able to provide links on a web page to Word documents on
an IIS 5.0 web server. I would like to be able to hit the link and have the
document open in the browser window. This application is a corporate
intranet and all clients will have Office 2000 loaded locally.

My problem is as follows:

When the user hits the link, the document is displayed in the browser as
expected. However, if they hit the back button, they are asked for a userid
and password. They can hit cancel and continue.

I can give full access to the IUSR account and this works fine. However,
the site is then open for anyone to publish to.

Any ideas? Is this a known bug?

Thanks.

When the user hits the link, the docu