{"id":370,"date":"2011-11-11T11:41:26","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T19:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/?p=370"},"modified":"2011-11-11T12:57:07","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T20:57:07","slug":"windows-7-prompting-for-credentials-when-accessing-sharepoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/windows-7-prompting-for-credentials-when-accessing-sharepoint\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 prompting for credentials when accessing SharePoint documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sympton<\/strong><br \/>\nYou are prompted to enter your credentials, even though the user account that you are using has sufficient permission to access this site.<\/p>\n<p>For example, when you open a Microsoft Office file from a Microsoft Office SharePoint site by using 2007 Microsoft Office on a Windows 7-based client computer that has no proxy configured, you are prompted for authentication.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Solution<\/strong><br \/>\nyou have to create a registry entry. To do this, follow these steps:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Click\u00a0<strong>Start<\/strong>, type\u00a0regedit\u00a0in the\u00a0<strong>Start Search<\/strong>\u00a0box, and then press\u00a0ENTER.<\/li>\n<li>Locate and then click the following registry subkey:\n<div>\n<div>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\WebClient\\Parameters<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>On the\u00a0<strong>Edit<\/strong>\u00a0menu, point to\u00a0<strong>New<\/strong>, and then click\u00a0<strong>Multi-String Value<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Type\u00a0AuthForwardServerList, and then press\u00a0ENTER.<\/li>\n<li>On the\u00a0<strong>Edit<\/strong>\u00a0menu, click\u00a0<strong>Modify<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>In the\u00a0<strong>Value data<\/strong>\u00a0box, type the URL of the server that hosts the Web share, and then click\u00a0<strong>OK<\/strong>.<strong>Note<\/strong>\u00a0You can also type a list of URLs in the\u00a0<strong>Value data<\/strong>\u00a0box. For more information, see the &#8220;Sample URL list&#8221; section in this article.<\/li>\n<li>Exit Registry Editor.<\/li>\n<li>Restart the WebDAV service.<\/li>\n<li>Open an elevated command prompt and type in <strong>net stop WebClient &amp;&amp; net start WebClient<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Reconnect to your SharePoint site.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div>source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/943280\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/943280<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sympton You are prompted to enter your credentials, even though the user account that you are using has sufficient permission to access this site. For example, when you open a Microsoft Office file from a Microsoft Office SharePoint site by using 2007 Microsoft Office on a Windows 7-based client computer that has no proxy configured,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[56,93,108,40,8],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it","tag-office","tag-sharepoint","tag-webdav","tag-windows","tag-windows-7"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1vc3H-5Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}