Can't turn off "Download File" alert when starting desktop applications

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Mike Jordan

Something happened the other day that I have not been
able to track down, but now when I click on Outlook, IE,
one of the MMC admin tools I have on my desktop, or most of
the other application icons, I get a message that asks if I
want to Download the File (with the message that some files
can be dangorous, etc.). The box that I would click to not
show this alert is grayed out and I can't uncheck them.

I have gone through local, software, OU and just about
every other group policy that I can find, but I can't find
any setting that does this. It is part of my roaming
profile, because if I switch computers, I have the same
problem when I login but not if I login as a different user.

I also suspect that my roaming profile might not be able
to write back to my userprofile directory on the login
server, but the permissions and ownership are set for me.

AD is on 2000 Server, I log in a XP machine. I have
admin right local and on the domain.

Any ideas where I should look?

Thanks

Mike
 
Something happened the other day that I have not been
able to track down, but now when I click on Outlook, IE,
one of the MMC admin tools I have on my desktop, or most of
the other application icons, I get a message that asks if I
want to Download the File (with the message that some files
can be dangorous, etc.). The box that I would click to not
show this alert is grayed out and I can't uncheck them.

I have gone through local, software, OU and just about
every other group policy that I can find, but I can't find
any setting that does this. It is part of my roaming
profile, because if I switch computers, I have the same
problem when I login but not if I login as a different user.

I also suspect that my roaming profile might not be able
to write back to my userprofile directory on the login
server, but the permissions and ownership are set for me.

AD is on 2000 Server, I log in a XP machine. I have
admin right local and on the domain.

Any ideas where I should look?
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Mike, since setting up Windows 2003 server with XP clients we get the
same thing - it doesn't matter who clicks on a network share exe file,
it always gives that warning. I would love to find a way to stop the
alert too. In our case, we get the alert on any user account trying to
open a executable/office file from any share.
 
Hmm, I don't think this is your problem, but I had the
same issue when I tried to map to a clustered resource
using the IPA as opposed to netbios name. Every file I
clicked including the exe's, would attempt to d/l them as
if it was a website.

Maybe you can start there.

jeff
 
Hmm, I don't think this is your problem, but I had the
same issue when I tried to map to a clustered resource
using the IPA as opposed to netbios name. Every file I
clicked including the exe's, would attempt to d/l them as
if it was a website.

Maybe you can start there.
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I see that too - when I may the resource as:

\\server.subdomain.domain.lan\share

I get the error message, not tried it as:

\\server\share

I'm not sure if I can do \\server\share across multiple domains in the
same network and have it work everywhere.
 
Mike, since setting up Windows 2003 server with XP clients we get the
same thing - it doesn't matter who clicks on a network share exe file,
it always gives that warning. I would love to find a way to stop the
alert too. In our case, we get the alert on any user account trying to
open a executable/office file from any share.
Click to expand...

I did update one of the spare servers we have to Win 2003
about that time. I wondered if that had anything to do
with it, but our PDC, BDC and login server are still Win
2000. The Win 2003 server is going to be an application
server that is just sitting on the network right now and
not doing anything. This is not happening to anyone else
either, just me and not the other admin. I have remotely
logged into the Win 2003 server to do configuration, but I
don't believe the other admin has. That might be worth
checking, have him log in and see if it starts happening
to him as well. Maybe there is something in the Win 2003
security that "updates" any workstation that loggs into
it.

Thanks

Mike
 
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