Sharepoint popup login windows

Question

Hi,

After I log into my sharepoint website, I have to login everytime I access a document from the library. Is there a way to fix this?

Thanks

Answer 1

Add the SharePoint site to your trusted sites or local intranet in Internet Options.

Answer 2

This is to do with the way Word does the request for a file It sends an anonymous request first. What solves this is setting the session cookie to be valid for a year.

Answer 3

Are you using AD for the Authentication ? Are you browsing the site from same network where it is hosted or on a Different N/W ?

If in the Same new work "Add the SharePoint site to your trusted sites or local intranet in Internet Options" and in the Trusted Sites Security Custom Level , User Authentication Section select the Option Automatically Login with the Current User Name and Password.

If you are browsing from Different n/w its bit tough to get it .

Answer 4

I experience this every day. My local machine is on a different domain to the SharePoint server so I have to log in every time I access SharePoint with a different application. This includes IE, Word, InfoPath, etc...

There is no way I've found to avoid it as it's simply part of using Windows authentication. Saving your password can help but still shows a dialog.

Answer 5

There are quite a few things that could cause this and you don't give much detail on your setup in the Q to give you an answer but...

The most comprehensive article I've found for troubleshooting this is

Unwanted Authentication Prompts

Answer 6

Switching to Basic Authentication will resolve this issue at a cost of passing credentials in clear text.

Answer 7

When using Windows Vista or Windows 7 the office tools (e.g. Word) do not look at the Local Intranet list of Internet Explorer. But they look at the following registry location:

HKEY__LOCAL__MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WebClient\Parameters\AuthForwardServerList

If your sharepoint site is located at share.myserver.com you can set the above registry entry to *.myserver.com (including the *) so that all addresses ending with myserver.com are trusted by the office applications. This will prevent the login popup box from appearing.

For more info see this microsoft article. It solved the problem for me.

Answer 8

User Level:

If your SharePoint site always prompts for username/password on accessing it you can set your browser to not prompt

- In Internet Explorer, go to Tools
- Click Internet Options
- add your site URL to Internet Explorers "Local Intranet Sites" section.
- Open Security tab
- Click Custom Level button
- Scroll down to this screen and select "Automatic logon with current username and password" radio button
- Click OK.

Administrator Level:

you can add your site's internal zone URL in Alternate Access Mappings section on Central Administration>Operations site, The SharePoint server always does not prompt for username/password and you can enjoy.