Users are asked to logon and authenticate while browsing Site 1

[simonwhitelock]

I've heard of this problem before and know its a known issue, but does anyone have any idea how to solve it?

My users are often prompted to enter a username and password while browsing the intranet site.
Most users have read access.

I added the server http address into Internet Explorer as a trusted site.

I dont get the same problem, but I reckon thats cause I am co-ordinator.

Running Sharepoint SP1 on Win2K server.
Anonymous access is disabled on the sharepoint site.

Any ideas?

 

[AngleEarth]

Hi simonwhitelock,

if your users are all given "READER" permissions only, then they cannot view documents that arent yet "PUBLISHED"
so they will be prompted to authenticate themselves.or try setting basic authentication on workspace level.
That should resolve it.

 

[DalTxAggie]

Encounterd a similar authentication issue.

All workspaces are configured with "Integrated Windows Authentication" only.

Users are prompted for authentication when attempting to access published documents via hyperlinks that were received in emails. Authentication failed - even with valid credentials.

Investigation determined that they could access the documents by browsing the document library.

The problem turned out to be the hyperlink itself. Authors posting the documents have local mappings to the workspaces (web-folders). The links being sent out were copy/pasted from the folders being accessed (via the local mappings).

Solution: Delete the "/SHADOW" reference from the url string being sent out in the email.

 

[julianf]

Hi,

I dunno if my issue was relating to your issue, but nevertheless....I was also experiencing difficulties with the Portal prompting users for a username and password when browing.

I gave all users author rights, but that did not fix it. I noticed that my PC was not doing it...even when I logged on as a non-coordinator. I am running Office Xp, and the rest are on Office 2000. Office XP comes with built in components to modify the portal through web folders....another forum asked if I had installed the "client components" of Sharepoint on the workstations.

I had not heard of this...did some investiagtion and installed the client components on a couple of workstations....and bingo it worked...the users are no longer prompted for username and password...(unless they dont have rights to a resource, ofcourse.)

Sp I rolled out the Client Compnents on all workstations...this also gives users the ability to modify catagorties and other portal tasks through web folders...

You can get the client componenets when you extract the Sharepoint Portal server Service pack 2...

Cheers,

Julian