Re: RWW

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Cary Shultz wrote:

Good afternoon!

Taking a bit of a vacation for the next three days...not that anyone cares! But, I thought that I would clear up a few things in my head.

Regarding RWW (Remote Web Workplace) in SBS2003 Standard....I have it set up at a new customer and everything is working just swell. Well, I think! It seems that users are asked for credentials too many times. Maybe it is how things are set up on the /remote folder in IIS...

Anyway, the user enters http://mail.mydomain.com/remote and the first pop-up appears (the usual pop up when basic authentication is configured....title bar indicates 'connecting to mail.mydomain.com'). We enter the credentials in the domainname\username format and then the password. We are then brought to the web page where we enter user name (without the domain name) and password and hit enter and then that popup windows appears again ('connecting to mail.mydomain.com'...domainname\user name and then password). Once we enter the user name and password (again...) we come to the page with the links.

Is this normal?

No, it is not. There should be *no* popup credential requests in RWW.

The default configuration of RWW/IIS in a proper install where all the wizards have been run at the appropriate time does not cause popups. This server has been "messed with".

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Steve Foster [SBS MVP]
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