wrote:
> We have an issue on a Win2k3 Virtual Server sitting on a VMWARE box with
> Integrated Authentication.
>
> When Integrated Auth is turned on, sometime (not always!) large files get a
> time-out message when you try to download them. In fact, it even happens
> with some smaller files (but inconsistently). But - the weird part is If we
> go back to basic authentication, the problem goes away!
>
> We did a Network Trace on what is being transferred and it appeared that the
> files *are* being completely downloaded but the client(IE 6) rejects them
> with an error message.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Dan

"David Wang" wrote:

> Client side timeout usually indicates that the client failed to
> retrieve the expected number of bytes of response within the client's
> alloted time.
>
> If you see evidence with a Network Sniffer that the server transferred
> all the bytes it claims to send via Content-Length: response header
> (or chunked encoding terminating chunk), then clearly the server met
> the contract to the client... why the client times out is a client-
> side concern.
>
> Can you reproduce this outside of a Virtual Server within VMWARE (I
> think Microsoft only supports running Windows within MS Virtual
> Server)?
>
> Can you reproduce this with another browser under Integrated
> Authentication?
>
>
> //David
> http://w3-4u.blogspot.com
> http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
> //
>
>
>
> On Jan 31, 3:15 pm, Dan Marsden <DanMars...@discussions.microsoft.com>
> wrote:
> > We have an issue on a Win2k3 Virtual Server sitting on a VMWARE box with
> > Integrated Authentication.
> >
> > When Integrated Auth is turned on, sometime (not always!) large files get a
> > time-out message when you try to download them. In fact, it even happens
> > with some smaller files (but inconsistently). But - the weird part is If we
> > go back to basic authentication, the problem goes away!
> >
> > We did a Network Trace on what is being transferred and it appeared that the
> > files *are* being completely downloaded but the client(IE 6) rejects them
> > with an error message.
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Dan
>
>