[windows2000] Re: Sharepoint authentication
- From: "Sorin Srbu" <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 16:34:41 +0200
Sullivan, Glenn <> wrote on Friday, October 06, 2006 4:26 PM:
WSS installed on a member server (ie not a DC). I use the Desktop engine, no
"real" SQL Server, and I see no way to tweak it.
I'm not quite sure what you mean with DSN and how would I do that?
I just read on
<http://wss.collutions.com/pages/III%20-%20Administration.aspx> that one
should use anonymous access together with integrated authentication. Dunno' if
this is relevant to my issue.
> Unless your SQL server is a DC (which I would NOT recommend) you should
> set the DSN to use a fixed account, not integrated security... I.e.,
> create a SQL login just for the portal stuff, and use the fixed login.
>
> Not a sharepoint user, but I've fought with SQL pass-through enough to
> recognize the symptoms...
>
>
> Glenn Sullivan, MCSE+I MCDBA
> David Clark Company Inc.
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> [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sorin Srbu
> Posted At: Friday, October 06, 2006 10:19 AM
> Posted To: Windows 2000
> Conversation: [windows2000] Sharepoint authentication
> Subject: [windows2000] Sharepoint authentication
>
>
> Hi list,
>
> I got the portal going, but I am a bit stumped on the issue of
> authentication when accessing the portal.
>
> Problem is that whenever I or any of the users connect to it, it pops up
> a login-box requesting the windows login credentials.
>
> I figured I'd make this portal the default webpage when opening IE, but
> if it's going to pop the question every time you access it, I'm not so
> sure using WSS is a good idea after all.
>
> I tried tinkering with enabling anonymous access on the webserver the
> portal runs off of, but I wasn't allowed in after setting it.
>
> We use this portal on our intranet only, so everybody who's logged on to
> the domain should be able to just click the link to the portal and be
> transferred to it. Just like the other intranet pages that run off our
> *nix-servers and the odd IIS.
>
> Why would I need to authenticate at all while inside the domain? Has
> this got to do with the writing to the sql-db?
>
> My main question though is whether there's any way to make this thing
> seamless (ie a passthrough authentication kinda'), like a background
> authentication for users already logged in to the domain? The login-box
> should not popup at all in this case.
>
> TIA.
>
> BW,
>
> Sorin
>
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