Please Help! - Advanced Digest With IIS6 - 401.1

From: Jan Bühler (jan_at_rufanundspar.com)
Date: 07/06/05 

Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 13:49:24 +0200

Hi, I recently set up an IIS6 box on a Windows Server 2003 domain controller
to take advantage of the new advanced digest that doesn't need reversible
encryption enabled passwords. I enabled UseDIGESTSSP in the Metabase, and
Digest works... Almost!

You see, say I apply Digest authentication thru the IIS manager MMC snap in
to a whole website which is say, www.test.com. Thing is, when i log onto
www.test.com with IE6 it keeps prompting for the password and ends up with a
"401.1 invalid server credentials". Thing is, if i go to www.test.com/test
the DIGEST authentication works fine. I've tried creating other websites but
the root directory never seems to authenticate. I've never had this on my
old web server running on IIS6 + Windows Server 2003 SP1.

When I swtich to the insecure basic authentication it works just fine.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

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