Re: no prompt for username and password

On 15.07.2010 14:16, Simon Large wrote:
> On 15 July 2010 12:37, Felix Saphir<felix.saphir_at_kantarmedia.de> wrote:
>> Anton schrieb:
>>> Well, I'm trying to check out code and its giving me a 403 error.
>>>
>>> I have checked with the IT Helpdesk people who are responsible for
>>> the respository and they have confirmed that I do have access to it.
>>> It seems that I am just not being prompted for the username/password.
>>
>> Well, AFAIK HTTP "403 Forbidden" means that wether or not you're
>> authenticated, the server will not grant access to the requested
>> resource. I think, the server should rather respond with "401
>> Unauthorized" to your request.
>
> Which possibly means that you are using the wrong URL. Check with the
> repository administrator.

Or the GUEST account on your machine is active. In that case, Windows
always authenticates with that account. The authentication is then
successful, but of course the GUEST account is not authorized to access
the repository and so you get a 403 error (authentication and
authorization are two different things).

Stefan

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