Symptom: Consider the following scenario…. A user browses to a WebDav or other website site, clicks into a document library and chooses to open (let's say) a Word document. A challenge for credentials occurs. Since the user was already prompted for credentials when browsing to the site, he/she was not expected to be prompted again…
Tag: Web Server
Prompted for Username and Password when Opening an Office file from a Web Server
ISSUE: When opening Office files from a web server (i.e SharePoint), users are prompted for credentials, even if credentials have already been entered. CAUSE: The Office application is trying to access the document directly from the server which has to communicate with the server to determine what type of server that's accessing the file…