I had problems with a small server and ended up wiping the darned thing
and reinstalling. I also took the opportunity to upgrade from Win2k to
WinXp Pro (SP1) at the same time.
Under the old Win2k system, all my CSP pages detected the username /
password from the Win2k login and was used to present the correct menu
to the user - this as been happily running for months and months.
in order to get the username etc, I followed the exact instructions
from George James
1 In IIS for the Virtual Directory go to the Directory Security
tab of the Virtual Directory Properties window. Select
Anonymous Access and Authentication Control to open the
Authen[t]ication Methods window. Then uncheck Anonymous
Access, uncheck Basic Authentication and check Integrated
Windows Authentication.
2 In your CSP application the *authenticated* users Id will then
be available in %request.CgiEnvs("REMOTE_USER")
Like I say, this has been working fine.
suddenly in XP, security has been clamped down so much, that it's no
longer working. On the server, the user can log in fine, view the CSP
pages and all works OK. On clients (only three of them) I am
continually presented with a UserName / Password popup. If I cancel
these, (5 of them) I get a popup that asks for the firewall password,
ntlm: realm, username and password
Never having needed to (or come across) the ntlm realm - I'm unsure of
what I need to uncheck / remove / disable to let me carry on as usual.
I've been doing some research on the net and I now know the ntlm is the
NTLanMan authentication process. the one note I came across asks to
make sure that the page has not been hijacked (no it hasn't) check the
username is not being blocked by the proxy (no its not)
the five popup usernames does equate to five Java applets that are
displayed on the menu page I have checked the security privileges on
the csp directory and ensured (I hope) that IIS has been correctly
setup.
I have installed IE6sp1 and the latest Java runtime's on the server as
part of the upgrade but nothing has changed on the clients, they still
run IE6sp1 and the latest Java runtime's
so of course the question is:
Anyone got a clue where to look next.
its a real pain in the **** I've already lost a lot of hair today and
need to retain some just for my handsome looks ! ! ! can anyone help
please.
just one last thing, after pulling the hair out all day, I've come home
hoping that everyone can chip in and send me back tomorrow with all the
answers (this ultimately means that I can't quickly check settings and
get back to the newsgroup.)
here's praying that there are some good trichologist's out there and
someone can prevent premature baldness
kev
