Authentication box

[Mujtaba]

i have a portal in sharepoint portal server whose users are being maintined
in an Active directoty. The document section of the site contains some
infopath forms.Now when these forms are opened the user sees an
"authentication" dialog box prompting for credentials(Active directory). I
want to suppress this behaviour as user has already been authenticated and it
is cumbersome for the user to enter credentials multiplte times. i am using
windows integrated security option of IIS. If any one has ideas to suppress
this dialog box...kindly respond.....thanks.

 

[darko]

Hi Mujtaba,

First, does your sharepoint and clients work in intranet scenario in same
domain?

If so, and ,as you say, you use Integrated Security from AD for your
SharePoint, you should add your SharePoint url to Local Intranet zone in
Internet Explorer on then client machine.
Internet Explorer -> Tools -> Internet Options - > Security -> Local
intranet -> Sites... -> Advanced, and type http://<sharepoint url> -> Add

Then select Automatic logon only in Intranet zone in Custom Level Security
on Internet Explorer Security Tab
Internet Explorer -> Tools -> Internet Options - > Security -> Custom
Level... -> User Authentication -> Automatic logon only in Intranet zone

I hope this is your scenario, and this will help

Best Regards,
darko

 

[Mujtaba]

Hi darko,

Thanks for your reply.My problem is that the Active directory domain will be
different from the one client is logged into. The portal will have both
intranet and extranet access........in any case my clients would be coming
from a different domain to which they are logged into.......any ideas for
this scenario.....Thanks.

 

[darko]

I understand now, but in that case there is no way to bypass login dialog
box, because InfoPath is client application, and it is not in context of
internet explorer, where the user has already authenticated.
When InfoPath starts to open the form, he has no credentials already passed
to SharePoint by the user who previously accessed SharePoint. That’s the
reason why the login dialog box appears.

So far, I don't know how to get that credentials already passed to
SharePoint through Internet Explorer.