Authentication failure when downloading large file

Hi!

I'm maintaining an intranet site running IIS 6 hosted on W2k3. We are
using Integrated authentication. All data is stored in a SQL Server
2000 on the same server. This includes binary documents stored in
IMAGE columns. Clients are all IE 6.

Everything is running well but when trying to download large binary
files, like PDFs or PowerPoint slides larger than some 30 Mb the user
gets the system login dialogue requiring a username/password and he
just can not get passed it; it just keeps popping up again and again .
The server really returns a 401.1 error, I've logged the trafic, but
why? Smaller files, like 10-20 Mb works well. I've modified the
Metabase to handle files up to 64 Mb. The upload/insertion of these
files works well. What is wrong?

Regards,

Jonas B

Re: Authentication failure when downloading large file

Believe I found it myself: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;8267 56

On 4 Apr, 12:10, jonas.berl...@knowit.se wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm maintaining an intranet site running IIS 6 hosted on W2k3. We are
> using Integrated authentication. All data is stored in a SQL Server
> 2000 on the same server. This includes binary documents stored in
> IMAGE columns. Clients are all IE 6.
>
> Everything is running well but when trying to download large binary
> files, like PDFs or PowerPoint slides larger than some 30 Mb the user
> gets the system login dialogue requiring a username/password and he
> just can not get passed it; it just keeps popping up again and again .
> The server really returns a 401.1 error, I've logged the trafic, but
> why? Smaller files, like 10-20 Mb works well. I've modified the
> Metabase to handle files up to 64 Mb. The upload/insertion of these
> files works well. What is wrong?
>
> Regards,
>
> Jonas B