Mike, while that seems to be the defacto you can't get > rid of me that
quickly. :)
A good try though, you'll admit !
Now I'll give a shot at the answer. But only a shot.
An anonymous access site means that people can access the normal site
content. While they can access the Site Settings page and make changes to
things, they can not save their changes as these require a higher level of
rights than they have. They will instead be asked for a name and password
that has those rights and will then be rejected after three attempts if they
don't have such an account.
Now roughly the same thing happens if you access a system file only then the
'three times and you are out' request for access rights comes immediately.
My theory (and it seems plausible) is that this is what is happening.
Let me also add that I imagine that some files can not be accessed via the
browser even with STS Admin rights but would can only be accessed on the
server by an administrator.
Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland
Mike, while that seems to be the defacto you can't get rid of me that
quickly. :) I am running SharePoint Team Services installed from an Office XP
CD with the upgrade to SP3 installed. If you look in the Default.htm code,
there is a direct call to the owssvr.dll file. If you call this dll file
directly you are prompted by basic authentication although anonymous access
is permitted and NTFS permissions are correct.
RedirectToFrame("Default%2ehtm","_vti_bin/owssvr.dll");
Post by Mike WalshAs far as I know this dll comes only with the 2003 SharePoint products.
*This* is the newsgroup for the back product SharePoint Team Services (2001)
The newsgroup for Windows SharePoint Services is
microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices
and the newsgroup for SharePoint Portal Server 2003 is
microsoft.public.sharepoint.portalserver
Please post to the correct *one* of those.
Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland
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Post by kingm12345If the option is set to allow anonymous browsers, why are users still being
prompted for authentication? I have check IIS permissions and allow anonymous
is enabled. I tried a direct call to _vti_bin/OWSSVR.DLL and am being
prompted for a username and password at that particular point. I have tried
adding the IUSR account with R/E permissions and it seems as if the
OWSSVR.DLL was not being executed so I backtracked and removed the permission.