Re: Windows XP Basic Authentication Problem

From: Bernard (qbernard_at_hotmail.com.discuss)
Date: 04/01/04 

Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 16:22:07 +0800

This is related to changes in XP and W2k3 IE.
you will see the domain input box (integrated windows)
as you will see from WinNT or W2k.

For basic. IE in XP will default use the servername\username
format. because this basic, you just need to remove the 'servername'
and just send it the 'username', IIS will use the default domain,
you configure and make it domainname\username 

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Regards,
Bernard Cheah
http://support.microsoft.com/
http://www.msmvps.com/bernard/
"Tools" <mbrocklehurst@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Below is the only scenario in which I have got basic authentication to
> work with XP, and it isn't pretty:
>
> Server: Win 2003 Standard Edition
> Client: Win XP Pro version 2002 sp1
>
> - I have a virtual directory in IIS called mydirectory
> - Authentication is set to "Basic Authentication"
> - The default domain is set to mydomain
>
> When I go to Internet Explorer (6.0) I am prompted for a user name and
> password with the following message:
>
> - Connecting to server name
> - User Name:
> - Password:
>
> At this point on NT or Windows 2000 clients I just enter the username
> and password and am authenticated. But in XP the authentication box
> shows up again, this time with the following:
>
> - Connecting to servername
> - User Name: servername\username
> - Password: ********
>
> If I replace servername with the mydomain (entered as the default
> domain in IIS MMC) then I am again prompted for authentication as
> follows:
>
> - Connecting to servername
> - User Name:
> - Password:
>
>
>  but this time if I just enter the username and password, like I did
> the first time, it works!!!!!!!!
>
> Can anyone shed any light on this strange behaviour?
>
> Thanks,
> Matt.

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