Microsoft KB Archive Search

Notice: This website is an unofficial Microsoft Knowledge Base (hereinafter KB) archive and is intended to provide a reliable access to deleted content from Microsoft KB. All KB articles are owned by Microsoft Corporation. Read full disclaimer for more details.

  1. Home
  2. You are repeatedly prompted for your user name and password when you open a FrontPage Web site

You are repeatedly prompted for your user name and password when you open a FrontPage Web site

View products that this article applies to.

This article was previously published under Q296645

↑ Back to the top

Symptoms

When you use Microsoft FrontPage to open an existing Web site on a Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) computer, you may be repeatedly prompted to enter a user name and password, even though your logon information is correct.

↑ Back to the top

Cause

This behavior occurs if IIS is configured to use Windows Integrated Authentication or Windows NTLM Authentication. These types of authentication are also known as NT Challenge/Response.

↑ Back to the top

Workaround

To work around this issue, configure IIS to use Basic Authentication instead of Windows Integrated Authentication or Windows NTLM Authentication. To do this, follow these steps:
  1. Open Internet Services Manager.
  2. Right-click your Web site, and then click Properties.
  3. Click the Directory Security tab.
  4. Under Anonymous access and authentication control, click Edit.
  5. Click to select the Basic Authentication check box.
  6. Click to clear the Windows Integrated Authentication check box.
  7. Click OK.

↑ Back to the top

More information

For additional information, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
308160� How to configure Internet Information Services Web authentication in Windows Server 2000
324276� How to configure Internet Information Services Web authentication in Windows Server 2003
324274� How to configure IIS Web site authentication in Windows Server 2003
310344� How to configure IIS 5.0 Web site authentication in Windows 2000
264921� How IIS authenticates browser clients

↑ Back to the top

Keywords: KB296645, kbprb

↑ Back to the top

Article Info
Article ID : 296645
Revision : 4
Created on : 1/31/2007
Published on : 1/31/2007
Exists online : False
Views : 359