IIS 6 Server and Windows Vista

Hi There,
I have a problem with IIS6 Webdav server on Windows 2003 and Windows Vista
Clients. The problem is when authenticating to the secure Webdav data shares
the users using Windows Vista have to enter the username in the form of
'domainname\username' wheras all previous versions of Windows i.e. XP and
2003 only need to enter the username. With the Vista clients, if the domain\
isnt supplied then authentication will 'appear' to fail as you will be
prompted 4 or 5 times. However a message will then appear saying that the
page could not be opened in the web folder view and do you wish to use the
default html view. If you click yes then you are taken to the page in the
html view and not the webdav view which is undesirable.

The Data shares are using SSL and using basic authentication. The default
domain name is specified on the authentication options page along with realm
on the particular webshare in IIS and it works perfectly in Windows XP
Clients from the internet so I know server configuration must be OK.

Can anyone help as this is proving to be quite troublesome for my client who
is a school, as its difficult enough to get kids to enter in their username
and password correctly in the first place without having to add yet more
stuff for them to enter.

On May 17, 3:51 am, Jody Stoll <JodySt... RemoveThis @discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:
> Hi There,
> I have a problem with IIS6 Webdav server on Windows 2003 and Windows Vista
> Clients. The problem is when authenticating to the secure Webdav data shares
> the users using Windows Vista have to enter the username in the form of
> 'domainname\username' wheras all previous versions of Windows i.e. XP and
> 2003 only need to enter the username. With the Vista clients, if the domain\
> isnt supplied then authentication will 'appear' to fail as you will be
> prompted 4 or 5 times. However a message will then appear saying that the
> page could not be opened in the web folder view and do you wish to use the
> default html view. If you click yes then you are taken to the page in the
> html view and not the webdav view which is undesirable.
>
> The Data shares are using SSL and using basic authentication. The default
> domain name is specified on the authentication options page along with realm
> on the particular webshare in IIS and it works perfectly in Windows XP
> Clients from the internet so I know server configuration must be OK.
>
> Can anyone help as this is proving to be quite troublesome for my client who
> is a school, as its difficult enough to get kids to enter in their username
> and password correctly in the first place without having to add yet more
> stuff for them to enter.


This sounds like an "issue" with the new WebDAV Client in Vista. Prior
versions of Windows had multiple versions of different WebDAV clients,
which causes consistency problems of its own (for example, only one of
them supported SSL)

You really can't do anything on the server since as you noted, it
works fine on XP/WS03.

I think your options are to either hope that this gets "fixed" (though
it sounds like the client insists on having the domain, not IIS, so it
may not be a "bug" at all) or have the school use a different WebDAV
Client.


//David
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