RE: Prompted for Credentials

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From: Ryan (Ryan_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/07/04 

Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 12:04:01 -0700

This sounds entirely like my issue so if you don't mind could you try something?

Connect to the site using the server name. (Work Yes/No)
Connect to the site using the alias (if applicable) (Work Yes/No)
Connect to the site using the IP Address (Work Yes/No)

Lastly, add in your local machines hosts file the server name or alias and IP. Now try it (Work Yes/No) If it works, remove the entry and try again.

I'm just curious cause the symptoms are so similar and the steps only take a second to do. Thanks.

Ryan

"anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com" wrote:

> My server is in the corp dns. And it's been on port 80.
>
> It is asking for the local machine account for those that
> get prompted.
>
> So half of this message does make sense.
>
> But DNS hasn't changed nor have I modified any entries.
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Not sure if this relates but I had this same problem with
> our production environment and found out it was not IIS
> nor was it Sharepoint but sadly DNS. For some reason when
> I had the site setup with a specified port other than 80
> it would prompt for a password (unless added in the local
> hosts file manually, you may want to try this out and test
> if DNS is the problem). Once I reverted the site back to
> the default port and just changed the IP and reassigned
> the alias in DNS it worked like a champ. Not quite sure
> what the deal is with this but it's worth a shot if you
> are using a non-standard port for your site. Plus as a
> note, Sharepoint Admins, if I remember correctly, may work
> as you have found because I think they are then considered
> local administrators over the local box, which then if you
> look at the login prompt on a user that is failing you
> will notice it is actually asking for a machine account
> and not a domain account. Again, this may not actually be
> any help at all but it does sound similar to my problem.
> >
> >Ryan
> >
> >"mda1125" wrote:
> >
> >> Or is it?
> >>
> >> Decided to enable basic authentication in my IIS 6.0
> >> server as well as integrated.
> >>
> >> Another person who couldn't logon all day (password
> >> prompts) suddently got in.
> >>
> >> I'm beginning to suspect that the group that does IE is
> >> making modifications that are breaking WSS.
> >>
> >> Why would turning on basic authentication suddently
> start
> >> working for these users?
> >>
> >> Why am I not affected? Why did the person who used my
> >> browser not get resolved until I flicked on that 1 flag
> >> in the userinfo table? Could it somehow be related to
> >> their AD profile that won't allow something to be
> passed?
> >>
> >> Seems like turning on basic authentication might solve
> it
> >> for this group of users who were working for months,
> and
> >> now cannot.
> >>
> >.
> >
>

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