Asking for password

[grinder]

When I access my web page using IE I am prompted for my password and user
name just as if I was publishing it. This has happened to other visitors
as well but not for everybody. iIt could be a IE setting or a FP setting.
Problem for me only occurred after I transfered the web to my new computer
and reinstalled Frontpage.

Any ideas?

 

[MD Websunlimited]

Hi Grinder,

It is a server permissions setting. Contact your ISP / WPP.

 

[grinder]

It appears to only apply when attempting to access document links. It does
not happen when attempting to view photo links on the page.

 

[Sparky Polastri]

Yeah, see that was the critical piece of information you left out of your
first post.

That's a Office Service Pack issue, not a web server issue. (Hint: does it
open anyway if you hit cancel?)

Some versions of Office assume you are working on an INTRANET not the
INTERNET, and try to open the document in "read/write" access... (thus the
password).

It's fixed in later service packs, and must be fixed on each PC accessing
file. (You might be better off just instructing users to "right-click and
save as" next to the links, as upgrading a SR is not something most regular
users do.)

KB article here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;225234

 

[grinder]

I followed your advice and installed the SR-1A Service pack. No longer asks
for my user name and password when accessing the documents. But continues
to do so when I click "back" after reviewing the document.

Thanks for your help getting this far.

 

[Steve Easton]

There's some information and a fix for that issue here:
http://www.95isalive.com/fixes/index.htm

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