Web Folders and Integrated Authentication

Hi all,

I'm having an issue with Web Folders and Integrated Authentication.
Basically I've an IIS 6 website setup that contains some web folders.
Inside the web folders are a collection of file types including Office
documents, text files and images. The website is setup to use
Integrated Authentication.

Internally users authenticating to the domain can access the site and
web folders without any issues (as expected).

Externally I've an issue.

When I browse to the site from the internet IE prompts me to login (as
expected) upon logging in I can see all the files and browse
subfolders within the web folder (as expected). If I then try to open
a word document I am again prompted for credentials, entering them
allows me to open the file. If I close word and then reopen the same
or another document I'm prompted for credentials again. Is it
possible to have the credentials cached somewhere or have Word use the
credential IE is connecting with?

Thanks for any help!

Neil

Re: Web Folders and Integrated Authentication

On Oct 3, 9:52 am, neil...@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm having an issue with Web Folders and Integrated Authentication.
> Basically I've an IIS 6 website setup that contains some web folders.
> Inside the web folders are a collection of file types including Office
> documents, text files and images. The website is setup to use
> Integrated Authentication.
>
> Internally users authenticating to the domain can access the site and
> web folders without any issues (as expected).
>
> Externally I've an issue.
>
> When I browse to the site from the internet IE prompts me to login (as
> expected) upon logging in I can see all the files and browse
> subfolders within the web folder (as expected). If I then try to open
> a word document I am again prompted for credentials, entering them
> allows me to open the file. If I close word and then reopen the same
> or another document I'm prompted for credentials again. Is it
> possible to have the credentials cached somewhere or have Word use the
> credential IE is connecting with?
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> Neil

Hello Neil,

If it is the same user and the same computer, then you should make
sure that you have added the external URL to the list of Trusted Sites
in IE. This should allow the default creds of the logged on user to be
used to seamlessly authenticate to the site.

HTH,
Dave