Opening WI Attachments Requires Username/Password

When attempting to open a work item attachment, we get prompted for credentials each time. Is this expected or something not set correctly Is there some permissions setting that will prevent this

All the users involved are in the project's contributors group in VSTF, in the contributors group of the sharepoint portal, and are browsers of the reporting services.



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Opening WI Attachments Requires Username/Password

  • seeta

    Windows XP/Pro and Windows 2000. I thought that was only in Windows 2003 server
  • rhfritz

    Adding it as a trusted site seems to fix the issue.
  • Miha Stajdohar

    Have you verified your User Authentication settings in Internet Explorer (Tools -> Internet Options -> Security -> Local Intranet -> Custom Level -> User Authentication). Automatic logon should be enabled.

    Have you tried adding your TFS url to your trusted sites list



  • jminond

    Yes we're still having this problem. No, our clients are Windows XP/Pro and Windows 2k. Both have this issue.
  • abo_selaiman

     Are users prompted for credentials when they connect to TFS

    No.

    Are users prompted for credentials when performing any other action in TFS

    None that I've encountered.

    Are users prompted for credentials when they try to download files from Sharepoint

    No.

    Have you made any changes to the default configuration of the TFS web configuration (\Microsoft Team Foundation 2005\Web Services\web.config)

    No.  And I checked the file to see if it matches your settings and it does.


  • GWebster

    Hi

    What is the OS where the client is installed Is the Internet Explorer Enhanced Security installed If yes, uninstall the same and then try

    Thanks
    Sagar



  • Mark Wakefield

    A few questions to determine if this a client-side or server-side issue:

    Are users prompted for credentials when they connect to TFS

    Are users prompted for credentials when performing any other action in TFS

    Are users prompted for credentials when they try to download files from Sharepoint

    Have you made any changes to the default configuration of the TFS web configuration (\Microsoft Team Foundation 2005\Web Services\web.config) Specifically, these sections:

    <defaultProxy>
    <proxy usesystemdefault="false" bypassonlocal="true"/>
    </defaultProxy>

    <authentication mode="Windows" />


    <authorization>
    <allow users="*" />
    </authorization>

    <sessionState
    mode="InProc"
    cookieless="false"
    />



  • Akash Maheshwari MSFT

    Simdoc, are you still running into the issue. Sorry for the delay here. Looks like you have the right permissions set on TFS to be open and edit attachments on work items. Is the client Win2k3 I will follow up with members in the team to see if they have any thoughts.

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