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| Hi all,
I'm having a problem with IIS server. I'm got a collection of excel
spreadsheets and word documents available on a website. The files are for
viewing only (i.e., read only). When I click on a link to download a word
file it prompts me whether I want to save it or open it. If I save it it
works fine. If I open it, it opens in IE and if I try save the document
locally it does it no problem.
However, when I do the same thing with the excel documents, I can open them
fine in IE but when I try save them locally, I get prompted for a username
and password for the web server. Now I don't want that to happen, I'm only
trying to save it locally! If I hit cancel, then I can save it locally. For
me its not a problem but other users think the system is broken and its
annoying that it does that when I have only given permissions in IIS to be
read-only.
If any can help that would be great,
P.S.
Looking for server side fixes.....
Cheers
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| David Wang [Msft] 2006-04-27, 7:53 am |
| This is a client-side problem.
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=321778
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"dave" <dave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:19036171-2D87-4EA9-B0FA-BFE2713638D1@microsoft.com...
> Hi all,
>
> I'm having a problem with IIS server. I'm got a collection of excel
> spreadsheets and word documents available on a website. The files are for
> viewing only (i.e., read only). When I click on a link to download a word
> file it prompts me whether I want to save it or open it. If I save it it
> works fine. If I open it, it opens in IE and if I try save the document
> locally it does it no problem.
>
> However, when I do the same thing with the excel documents, I can open
> them
> fine in IE but when I try save them locally, I get prompted for a username
> and password for the web server. Now I don't want that to happen, I'm only
> trying to save it locally! If I hit cancel, then I can save it locally.
> For
> me its not a problem but other users think the system is broken and its
> annoying that it does that when I have only given permissions in IIS to be
> read-only.
>
> If any can help that would be great,
>
> P.S.
> Looking for server side fixes.....
>
> Cheers
>
>
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