Problem accessing PowerPoint content in an authenticated web appl.

[Guest]

I am working on a web based KM and collaboration application which has been
designed for 'Microsoft Internet Explorer minimum version IE 5.0 SP2'. All
users are authenticated and browser sessions have appropriate identification
settings and cookies. We have encountered a problem when accessing PowerPoint
content as follows:

"When a PowerPoint file is accessed using PowerPoint and not the PowerPoint
viewer, two requests are sent. The first one seems to be sent by MSIE with
the correct identification settings/cookies so there would be no problem.

The second one seems to be sent by the PowerPoint application with no
identification settings/cookies (anonymous) which results in an application
error 'DD_NOACCESS - An error occurred'.

At the moment, we have no solution for this. The problem cannot be solved
unless PowerPoint sends along a cookie to authenticate. It is not a fix that
can be done in the web application, its a fix that needs to be done to the
behaviour of PowerPoint when opening a file. The same problem may occur with
files associated with the windows media player."

Is this related to the PowerPoint version? Can PowerPoint be configured to
prevent this? I would appreciate any insight as to how this issue might be
circumvented.

Thanks in advance for any help

 

[Guest]

Hi Jeff,

The only help I can give is the tutorial on "Creating a Shared Repository or
Workspace on the Cheap"
http://www.powerpointmagician.0catch.com/articles/repository.htm

PowerPoint prompts appropriately for login for secure areas of the web using
this method.

Glenna

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Have a look here:

Control how the browser opens PowerPoint files
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00189.htm

I think one of the links addresses this issue