Secure Folders & FrontPage Navigation Bar

[Aaron]

Hello,

I have a Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition SP1 running IIS6.0 and
Server Extensions 2002.

I have secured several folders within my website to only allow specific
users to view them.

My problem is when I use the FrontPage Navigation (Link Bar). The link to
a secure folder triggers the password authentication window to appear as
soon as the index page is loaded.

Example: On my index page I have a FP Nav link to a secure folder called
s_folder. When a user first arrives on my site they are prompted to enter a
username & password as if they had clicked on the s_folder link (even though
they have not).

My temporary solution (besides text only hyperlinks) was to use the FP
Hover buttons which worked great, until a couple users (not all) said the
Java buttons didn't work when they clicked on them.

Any idea's??? Does the FP link bar require specific user rights that may
need to be added to the secure folders?

Thanks,
Aaron

 

[Chris Leeds, MVP-FrontPage]

you could make some "dummy pages" for the navigation buttons to represent,
then on the "dummy page" just add a redirect, such as in asp:
server.transfer or with a meta refresh on any kind of page, or JavaScript,
etc.
this way you've got a page _outside_ the secure folder that does nothing but
"flip" the user to the index page of the default folder.

HTH

--
Chris Leeds,
Microsoft MVP-FrontPage

If you make web sites for other people, you should check out ContentSeed:
http://contentseed.com/

 

[woodygap]

I experienced the same situation. I created a stand alone link outside the
navigation bar and it woked fine. I would only guess that if you had multiple
protected folders, you could create a sperate navigation bar for only the
password folders (just a guess though)

 

[Aaron]

Thanks for the suggestions. I may do both.

I'm not happy that other's have had issues also, but I am glad that it
wasn't just me. Doh!

Thanks again.

Aaron