IE6 and WinXP Authentication problems to IIS5 server

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Chris Hladky

On our intranet site (IIS 5) we have secured areas that
require NT domain authentication, and windows 2000 and XP
clients going to the site.

The windows 2000 and IE6sp1 clients can go to the site
fine, when it prompts for authentication, they type in a
username and pass, and they log in (it uses the default
domain specified by IIS).

The windows xp machines running iesp1 can go to the site
and get the prompt for authentication, if they type in a
good username and password, it fails and fills in the
server name in front of the username. This is easily
corrected by typing domain\username, but the problem
seems to be that XP or IE isn't getting the default
domain from IIS.

How can this be fixed?
 
Hello Chris,

This sounds like an IIS issue. Try setting the default domain in the basic
authentification to see if this helps and then restart the web server.

1. Load up the IIS/MMC
2. Right click on the Web Site
3. Select Properties
4. Then Directory Security
5. Next Anonymous Access
6. Authentication Control 'Edit'
7. Basic Authentication 'Edit'.
8. Enter the Domain Name you want to be default - and then Ok.


Daran Tallarida, MCSE
Microsoft Online Support Engineer

Get Secure! – www.microsoft.com/security

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Chris,

A suggestion would be to post this issue in the IIS group as it appears
that this issue is not isolated to only one client.


Daran Tallarida, MCSE
Microsoft Online Support Engineer

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I like how the buck is passed. I'm experiencing the same
problem, and it's only happeing to machines running
Windows XP with IE6sp1.

On our IIS5 server, we had sites setup for Windows
Integrated Authentication. User using IE6sp1 on Windows
2000 would not experience an issue, other using IE6
Standard on Windows XP would also not experience this
issue. I even have a user using the same browser on
windows 98, who does not have an authenticaion issue.

I have a hard time beleiving that this is a problem
related ith iis, since it only happens to IE6sp1 on xp and
no other operating system.

On a key note, I switched the authenticaion type on our
IIS server to Basic, and it's working fine far all OS'.
But this is only a tempoary fix, since we do want to use
Integrated Authentication
 
Hi

I have performed a test but did not manage to reproduce the behavior. If it
is OK, you can build a public site and let us know the address. We can test
to see if it is a server side issue or client side issue.

Thank you!

Regards,
Bennie Chen
Product Support Services
Microsoft Corporation

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Hi,

I have performed several tests and get the following results:

1. If the same username exists in both domains (the domain that contains
the client and the IIS server), this behavior would occur. You have to
specify the correct domain name.

2. If the user only exists in the IIS server side domain, but not in the
client side domain, the problem does not occur.

From these tests, I believe this is a security behavior. I am not sure if
this is the situation you are encountering. If there is any additional
information, please let me know. You can also build a test Web server on
the Internet, we can perform some tests on that server too.

Thank you!

Regards,
Bennie Chen
Product Support Services
Microsoft Corporation

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