Re: An outside client can't access our WSS website

Check what kind of clients they have.

Pedantic (but relevant) question: Are you using "Basic Authentication" or
"Windows Authentication"? (You say "Basic Windows Authentication")

Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland
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"Tom Watson" <TomWatson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1FF9FBE6-CF07-467A-88C1-5FBFB2F88075@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> One client can't access our website from their company office. There are
> no
> problems accessing our site from sever other outside locations.
>
> Their company network(the outside location with the problems) is built on
> Windows Server 2003 with exchange server...all up to date.
>
> Here are the detailed sypmtoms when they try to login:
>
> User goes to site which prompts for username password
>
> They are prompted again for un pw etc. multiple times
>
> Sometimes graphics will load one at a time after each un pw iteration like
> the site is requiring authorization for each graphic part of the website
>
> Sometimes we can get all the way to the home page but every new action
> brings up a new authentication window
>
> As I mentioned these symptoms only occur at this one site. The site is
> accessed normally from all other sites we have tried.single authentication
> dialog gets the user in and they are good from then on.
>
> We are using basic Windows authentication on our WSS server...no SSL or
> Certificates.
>
> Any ideas?


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