Friday, January 5, 2007

IIS' "Integrated Windows Authentication"

While trying to get "IWA" to work properly, I ran into two new bits of knowledge.

1. Even if you THINK you are in the "Intranet Zone", you should make sure you are by entering the domain name into Internet Explorer's Local Intranet Sites section.
2. In Firefox, under "about:config", you can add your domain to "network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trused-uris", which will pass your local authentication hash to IIS.

These issues were started by my attempt to make access to internal, NTFS secured web pages seamless. Knowing that Integrated Windows Authentication should work, I was still getting prompted for UN/PW.