windows authentication reprompting

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I have an intranet website on Windows 2003, IIS6, SSL, and only Windows
Authentication checked. In I.E. (6.0.2800.1106 SP1), it reprompts the
authentication with every file, every image, for every page. In Mozilla, it
prompts once and then is happy from then on. Thus I'm guessing it's a
browser security setting? I can add it to the intranet group under Options,
but this only masks the problem, as it shouldn't need to reprompt for every
page? Does anyone know what to do here?
 
I have an intranet website on Windows 2003, IIS6, SSL, and only Windows
Authentication checked. In I.E. (6.0.2800.1106 SP1), it reprompts the
authentication with every file, every image, for every page. In Mozilla, it
prompts once and then is happy from then on. Thus I'm guessing it's a
browser security setting? I can add it to the intranet group under Options,
but this only masks the problem, as it shouldn't need to reprompt for every
page? Does anyone know what to do here?
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One more update - I noticed that the webserver had been up for 93 days, and
so I gave it a reboot. Since then, it's been behaving better, but this
still doesn't resolve the problem - is it a bug in IIS that needs patching?
 
Check these out.

You Cannot Access Your MSN E-mail Account or Authenticate with a Web Site in
Various Programs
When you try to access your MSN e-mail account, you may receive the
following error message:
You cannot successfully authenticate with a Web site in various programs
(for example, Windows Media Player). For example, you may be prompted for
your user name and your password several times, and you may receive the
error message that is described in this section or an other error message
from the Web site that indicates that you cannot access even after you type
the correct user name and password.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=813951 (i. e. 6. W98/se/NT4/W2000/XP
6/5/2003)


Internet Explorer Always Prompts for Authentication When Browsing to Web
Sites Already Logged on to
When you connect through a caching ISA Proxy that has anonymous access, and
you try to perform a NT LAN Manager (NTLM) Authentication with an IIS4 or
IIS5 Web server, Internet Explorer 6.0 may not automatically authenticate
with NTLM pre-authorization (preach). Instead, you may be continually
prompted to authenticate.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=820780 (i. e. 6. W98/se/ME/NT4/W2000/XP
9/19/2003)
 
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