Re: Getting prompted on IIS web

From: Jason Brown [MSFT] (i-brjaso_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/05/05 

Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 15:09:57 +1000

It's to do with your IE security Zones. surf to the FQDN and make a note of
the zone (bottom right on the staus bar). then do the same on the netbios
name. See the difference?

Add the FQDN to the intranet or trusted zone and the problem ought to go
away 

-- 
Jason Brown
Microsoft GTSC, IIS
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
"Keith-Earl" <k@k.com> wrote in message 
news:uwax2OUOFHA.2604@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> We have run a .NET app on a test and prod server for months. We are 
> running IIS 5 on Windows 2000 and are fully patched with current versions 
> of ADO. In order to browse the application we only use the server name in 
> the URL. For example:  http://MyServer/MyApp/default.aspx  . We are not 
> prompted for our credentials because we only have Windows authentication 
> enabled.
>
> Some of our end users have used the fully qualified domain name.  For 
> example: http://MyServer.MyDomain.Com/MyApp/default.aspx . At this point 
> we are prompted for our credentials even though it is the same web app. 
> Authentication method has not changed, only the URL now uses the entire 
> domain name.
>
> What gives?
>
> We ran FileMon on the servers and only got SUCCESS for all file access. 
> When we tracert we get the same (two hop) results.
>
> Why does the slight change in the URL cause us to get prompted?  Could it 
> be that the first solution uses a different domain controller to 
> authenticate than the second?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Keith
>

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