External users prompted for credentials when saving a doc from sit

We have a web site where we post a bunch of forms and documents, Word, Excel,
etc. When external users click on the documents and it opens in Word (lets
say for example), when the user then goes to save that document, they are
prompted for a user name and password as if they were trying to save the
document back to the web server.

What we'd like to do is stop this so they their default directory is their
local drive, rather than our web server. We are fairly certin that this is
related to FrontPage Extensions/IIS/Windows because we did a test and when we
put them on a on a Linux server the users are never asked for credentials
when saving. See the sample links below.

So the $100,000 question is; Is there a way either in IIS, on the server, or
in FrontPage Extensions to shut of this feature that keeps prompting users
for credentials when saving a doc from our site?

File on a non-Windows server
http://ftp.mhdconline.com/housing_trust_fund/documents/FY200 8/MHTF_2008_Application.xls

Similar file on a server Windows Server running FPExtensions & IIS
http://www.mhdc.com/rental_production/forms/Monthly_Progress _Report-2007.xls

Re: External users prompted for credentials when saving a doc from sit

On Aug 21, 6:36 am, KCBjordan
wrote:
> We have a web site where we post a bunch of forms and documents, Word, Excel,
> etc. When external users click on the documents and it opens in Word (lets
> say for example), when the user then goes to save that document, they are
> prompted for a user name and password as if they were trying to save the
> document back to the web server.
>
> What we'd like to do is stop this so they their default directory is their
> local drive, rather than our web server. We are fairly certin that this is
> related to FrontPage Extensions/IIS/Windows because we did a test and when we
> put them on a on a Linux server the users are never asked for credentials
> when saving. See the sample links below.
>
> So the $100,000 question is; Is there a way either in IIS, on the server, or
> in FrontPage Extensions to shut of this feature that keeps prompting users
> for credentials when saving a doc from our site?
>
> File on a non-Windows serverhttp://ftp.mhdconline.com/housing_trust_fund/documents /FY2008/MHTF_20...
>
> Similar file on a server Windows Server running FPExtensions & IIShttp://www.mhdc.com/rental_production/forms/Monthly_Progr ess_Report-2...



Turn off FPSE and WebDAV on IIS, especially when you are facing
external users.

Office applications have their own behavior when they detect various
"enabling" technologies on the server like FPSE and WebDAV which allow
publishing to the server, which make sense if it was Intranet/
Corporate but rarely make sense on the Internet. The behaviors look
like the following:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;3217 78


//David
http://w3-4u.blogspot.com
http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
//

Re: External users prompted for credentials when saving a doc from

thanks David, I just wish shutting off FPSE were an option for us, but we
can't due to some other features of our site that depend on them.

Thanks anyway for the answer.

"David Wang" wrote:

> On Aug 21, 6:36 am, KCBjordan
> wrote:
> > We have a web site where we post a bunch of forms and documents, Word, Excel,
> > etc. When external users click on the documents and it opens in Word (lets
> > say for example), when the user then goes to save that document, they are
> > prompted for a user name and password as if they were trying to save the
> > document back to the web server.
> >
> > What we'd like to do is stop this so they their default directory is their
> > local drive, rather than our web server. We are fairly certin that this is
> > related to FrontPage Extensions/IIS/Windows because we did a test and when we
> > put them on a on a Linux server the users are never asked for credentials
> > when saving. See the sample links below.
> >
> > So the $100,000 question is; Is there a way either in IIS, on the server, or
> > in FrontPage Extensions to shut of this feature that keeps prompting users
> > for credentials when saving a doc from our site?
> >
> > File on a non-Windows serverhttp://ftp.mhdconline.com/housing_trust_fund/documents /FY2008/MHTF_20...
> >
> > Similar file on a server Windows Server running FPExtensions & IIShttp://www.mhdc.com/rental_production/forms/Monthly_Progr ess_Report-2...
>
>
>
> Turn off FPSE and WebDAV on IIS, especially when you are facing
> external users.
>
> Office applications have their own behavior when they detect various
> "enabling" technologies on the server like FPSE and WebDAV which allow
> publishing to the server, which make sense if it was Intranet/
> Corporate but rarely make sense on the Internet. The behaviors look
> like the following:
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;3217 78
>
>
> //David
> http://w3-4u.blogspot.com
> http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
> //
>
>