"David Hurley" <dhurley@HiWAAY.net.nospam> wrote in message
news:Ohy%23b94iEHA.2992@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>I found this question on the web and it is the same problem I am having,
>but
> I cannot seem to find an answer, any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>
> ---------------------------------------
>
> We have an IIS 5-based intranet Web site running on a Windows 2000 Server
> domain member server. The Intranet virtual directory is configured for
> SSL,
> Basic Authentication (with a default domain specified) and Integrated
> Windows Authentication.
>
> When users log in with the Domain name\Username syntax at the login box,
> they can login just fine. However, if the users try to login with only
> their
> domain user name, IIS shoots back the logon box pre-filled in with:
>
> Servername\username
>
> The server name is fully qualified. That is to say:
>
> Server01.company.com\joeuser
>
> This strikes me as very, very weird.
>
> I scoured the metabase by using the metabase editor. I found some traces
> to
> the referenced servername path in the SMTP properties and I nuked 'em
> because we aren't running SMTP on the IIS server. No help, though.
>
> I also scoured the Registry for traces of the servername--nothing. I don't
> know why IIS thinks it should be pointing to the local computer instead of
> our domain controller. As I said earlier, if users manually type in
> Domainname\Username they can log in fine. However, as you network admins
> know, the less we have to instruct our users to do themselves manually,
> the
> better. :)
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Tim
>
>