Re: Viewing Word Documents

From: Leythos (void@nowhere.com)
Date: 03/24/03 

From: Leythos <void@nowhere.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 23:25:13 GMT

In article <eDOKhNX8CHA.1512@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl>, cdmsf01
@attglobal.net says...
> 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

I hate when corporate sites do this - Convert the documents to PDF and
distribute them that way.

There are not to many documents that have to stay in Word format for
distribution. 

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