What Port is used for authentication?

[Bob Postings]

I have a Windows 2003 SP1 Server that has IIS and FrontPage Extensions
(SharePointServices) running on it. The user is a standalone server and
there isn't ADS in our environment.
A user is trying to access and edit the site from home, but can't get logged
in. It asks for an id and password, but after entering it, it tell them
that they don't have permission to view the folder.

Using the same id and password from within our LAN, I can get in. Can
someone explain to me what ports are used in the process to authenticate?

Task Port
See webpage: 80
request authentication:
receive authentication:
etc...

 

[John Wunderlich]

I have a Windows 2003 SP1 Server that has IIS and FrontPage
Extensions (SharePointServices) running on it. The user is a
standalone server and there isn't ADS in our environment.
A user is trying to access and edit the site from home, but can't
get logged in. It asks for an id and password, but after entering
it, it tell them that they don't have permission to view the
folder.

When it asks for username, are they entering the complete
domainname\username or computername\username
if they just enter a plain username, then they may not be logging in
as they expect (the default domain/computer name may be different).

HTH,
John

 

[Bob Postings]

After getting more info from the user, I figured out that "Basic
Authentication" was not enabled on the subweb they were trying to access.
Once I checked it on the Directory Security tab, all started working.

Thanks, John, for your response.


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