why doesn't w2k remember my passwords (any more)?

[Hendrik Maryns]

Hello,

I'm online via a LAN of the university, which prompts for password in a
window that looks as if it is the site that asks for it. Well, giving my
normal password usually gets me through, but since some weeks, checking the
"remember password" box doesn't seem to work any more, even when I do
"refresh" it asks the password again, with blank prompts (normally, there
used to stand my username and password in **'s).

So, two questions:
- Is there a way to turn this password asking off, i.e. that it doesn't ask
it any more ever?

- If the first question fais, what should I do to get w2k to remember my
password again (although it only remembers it for the particular site, so I
have to give it for a new site every time, that's why I tried to turn it
off)?

I tried meddling with the security settings, Custom and at the bottom:
Anonymous logon, but then I get blank pages, it doesn't show the sites
anymore. The other three options don't seem to differ much.

Cheers and thanks, H.

--
Hendrik Maryns
Fichtenweg 19 Zi. 9
D-72076 Tübingen
Deutschland/Duitsland
+491753353494 (Deutschland)
+32499342012 (België)

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[Subrahmanya Bhandarkar [MSFT]]

Read this link
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;258063&Product=ie600

Try this option
Internet Explorer's Intranet zone security setting must be set to Automatic
logon only in Intranet zone. This is the default setting for Internet
Explorer. For additional information about Internet Explorer security
zones, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft
Knowledge Base:



Internet Explorer May Prompt You for a Password
View products that this article applies to.
This article was previously published under Q258063
SUMMARY
Passing your user name and password to an Internet Information Services
(IIS) Web server is the responsibility of the Web browser. The following
scenarios describe the relationship between Internet Explorer and IIS in
regards to authentication.
MORE INFORMATION
NOTE: Windows Integrated authentication, Windows NT Challenge/Response
(NTCR), and Windows NT LAN Manager (NTLM) are the same and are used
synonymously throughout this article.
Internet Explorer prompts for a password when you are using Windows
Integrated authentication (Microsoft Windows NT Challenge/Response).

The following conditions must be met for Internet Explorer to automatically
authenticate a user's logon and password and maintain security:
Windows Integrated authentication, also known as Windows NT
Challenge/Response, must be enabled in the Web site properties in IIS.
Anonymous authentication is attempted first, followed by Windows Integrated
authentication, Digest authentication (if applicable), and finally Basic
(clear text) authentication.
Both the client and the Web server must be either in the same Microsoft
Windows NT-based or Microsoft Windows 2000-based domain or in trusted
Windows NT-based or Windows 2000-based domains in which the user's account
can be granted permissions to resources on the IIS-based computer.
The user's browser must be Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer is the only
browser that supports Windows Integrated authentication (NTCR).
Internet Explorer must consider the requested URL to be on the intranet
(local). If the computer name portion of the requested URL contains periods
(such as http://www.microsoft.com and http://10.0.0.1), Internet Explorer
assumes that the requested address exists on the Internet and does not pass
any credentials automatically. Addresses without periods (such as
http://webserver) are considered to be on the intranet (local); Internet
Explorer passes credentials automatically. The only exception is addresses
included in the Intranet zone in Internet Explorer.
Internet Explorer's Intranet zone security setting must be set to Automatic
logon only in Intranet zone. This is the default setting for Internet
Explorer. For additional information about Internet Explorer security
zones, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft
Knowledge Base:
174360 How to Use Security Zones in Internet Explorer

The user requesting the Web page must have appropriate file system (NTFS)
permissions to the Web page as well as all of the objects referenced in the
Web page. For example, a user may have Full Control rights to a Web page,
but is prompted for a password if the Web page refers to graphics that are
in a secure folder.
Internet Explorer prompts for a password when you are using Basic (clear
text) authentication or Digest authentication.

Internet Explorer does not pass your user name and password automatically
when you are using Basic (clear text) authentication or Digest
authentication. Therefore, you are always prompted for credentials when you
are using these authentication methods.
Internet Explorer prompts for a password when you are using anonymous
authentication.

Anonymous authentication never prompts you for a password because IIS
already knows the user name and password of the anonymous account. You are
prompted for a password because Internet Explorer has been forced to use an
authentication method other than anonymous. This occurs because the
anonymous user account (IUSR_computername by default) did not gain access
to one or more of the following items:
The requested file or Web page
Any of the requested objects embedded in the file or Web page (for example,
images)
The ISAPI extensions associated with the requested file or web page (for
example, and .shtml file)
REFERENCES
For additional information, click the following article number to view the
article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
185874 HOW TO: Troubleshoot Permissions in Internet Information Server 4.0



Subbu
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