"josh reynolds" <josh.reynolds DeleteThis @eku.edu> wrote in message
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> Hi all, I'm running IIS 5 and win2k advanced server, and
> it's doing something weird:
>
> We have some .doc and .xls files available for download,
> the files aren't protected by file permissions, the
> anonymous web user can read them. Sometimes when a user
> clicks on a link to download or open one of these files
> their browser will pop up the little authentication
> window, as if IIS is asking them to log in to access the
> file. It doesn't seem to happen all the time, but I think
> it does happen across browser versions, so I don't think
> it's a bug on the client side. If you click cancel on the
> authentication window it opens/downloads the file normally.
>
> Anybody ever seen this before?
Start here:
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