"Enter Network Password" popup on all IE pages

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Steve

Have a new issue that came this weekend while running IIS
Lockdown tool. Cannt find cause but have isolated it to
domain workstation accounts.

When a new account is created in the domain, IE6 throws up
a popup window from the router upstream from the gateway
router. Every time the page is changed the "Enter Network
Password" login box appears showing the gateway router
model as the "Realm." I re-flashed the gateway software,
installed a fresh W2000P on a workstation only as a member
of a workgroup - all fine. Then I added it to the doamin
and the problem reappeared. Accounts established before
this weekend don't have the issue but new accounts do.
This makes me think it is a user security setting rather
than computer. I have gone through all the levels of
Active Directory GPO's that I can find and nothing looks
like it might be the cause. Anyone know this issue either
from the GPO or registry?
 
gave up last night on this and began reimaging server.

Here is what I determined. The audit policy on that local
computer is set to audit all events even though the local,
and domain policies for users and computers are set to
default. I reset each policy to audit and saved, then
reset to no audit, then rebooted the server and
workstation, installed a new user and the problem still
existed. I opened the ini and inf files in the policy
objects and they all read Ok as to the audit policy. How
the workstation is being transformed into all audit set on
is beyond me but I suspect that somewhere in one of the
bits of data there is an error and that was causing the
problem. This all began after two events - the first
being that a website grabbed the server browser and took
over; and I ran the IIS Lockdown tool (IIS is on LAN
only). My guess is that one of these items corrupted
something.....so zero fill, reimage and I hope the issue
will be resolved.

Steve
 
issue is IE related. removing check mark in
IE "automatically detect settings" solves and creates the
problem. It has started appearing on other computers. My
opinion now after recieveing an email from a vendor whose
web servers begans having troubles with passwords etc is
that it is related to a buggy security release recently.
 
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