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FP98: No Prompt for User Name and Password on IIS Web

Article ID: 194037

Article Last Modified on 10/3/2001


APPLIES TO


This article was previously published under Q194037

For a Microsoft FrontPage 2000 version of this article, see
208628.
For a Microsoft FrontPage 97 and earlier version of this article, see 153629.

SYMPTOMS

When you use FrontPage Explorer to open an existing Web or to create a new Web on a Microsoft Internet Information Server, you are not prompted to enter a user name or password.

To work around this behavior, use the method appropriate to your situation.

Method 1: If FrontPage Is Running on a FAT Partition

Configure the Internet Information Server as specified in the Readme.iis file that accompanies the FrontPage Internet Information Server Extensions.

Method 2: If FrontPage Is Running on an NTFS Partition

The NTFS file permissions may be set incorrectly.

For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

162144 FP97: Minimum NTFS File Permission Requirements

CAUSE

This problem may occur for any of the following reasons: NOTE: If you are using FrontPage 98 and the Microsoft Internet Information Server, you may not be prompted for a user name and password if the user name and password that you used to log on to Windows is the same as the password you use to log on to the Web server and IIS is configured to use NTLM authentication.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

Additional query words: file allocation table

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