I have been building a website diligently for the past three months and
everything has been working well so far.
Yesterday, I added a link on my javascript menu. This link is supposed to go
to a pdf in a folder instead of the usual html page. When I try to test the
link an authentication dialog box pops up requesting username and password.
Since the webuser has to log in to the main site anyway, I just want the
file to pop up immediately. I have changed directory security on the folder,
on the website, on everything and still I get the Windows Authentication
box.
I then tried to put in user names and passwords that were on my machine (All
of them!!) - nothing will let me access the pdf - AAAAAAAUGH
I tried searching Google for various words ("401 Authorization Required",
website, authentication, etc...) but the results come back in the millions
and nothing is relevant.
Please help, I'm going squirrelly and I can't think straight enough to know
what the magic searchword is that will google me to my answer. I have a
demonstration in four days and need to solve this.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Steven
PS I'm using IIS on Windows XP. The site is ASP.NET with a javascript
menu.