User authentication in IWP

[Brunk]

When logging into a database using FMP7 client, username/password authentication works as expected. From a browser, the only access to a database is through the "guest" logon, which requires no password. Attempting to log on as "admin" or another identified user with password, FMP7 Advanced complains and disallows. Any suggestions?

[stuj1026]

If you are using IIS under microsoft check there It might be looking for authentication there.. I will check with our IT department.. I recall we had a similar problem

Stu

[Larry Schroeder]

If you are running fms 7 advance on a win 2000 os and not either server 2000 or server 2003 none of the authentication to the server os will work since there is a difference in the user and groups even though the IIS is similar.

However your problem. I found that any of my solutions that I was serving out with iwp and had any guest access at all behaved fine with fmp 7 client directly but with iwp it assumed and took the guest privledges and served it out. I could not bring up the password screen from the web in order to enter a higher power user name and pw in order to change the data.

When I dumped the guest privledges in the database for iwp then the password screen came up and I was able to enter data with high power password.

I reported this problem to fmp as a bug. It seems that the password screen should come up in iwp to the browser with the guest option if it is appropriate.

hope this helps...