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Problem accessing site by IP Address

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by adz666

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We have an intranet site on an IIS server, which is set up to automatically detect a user's NT ID and display results accordingly. When the site is accessed through IE by using its host name, it works OK. However, if you try to access it by using the server's IP address it brings up the NT challenge login box (then lets you in once details are entered). DNS resolves the host name to the same IP address, so why the difference?

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by raffi_

The detection process is SITE specific not IP specific. When you access the site using the URL it verifies the ID to the site ACL. When you use the IP it does not and should not. Why? You may be running more than one site of that IP - virtual sites.

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by joncr

It sounds like IE is detecting the ip address as in the Internet Zone. While your intranet name is detected in the Intranet Zone.

You can check this by looking in the right bottom corner of the status bar in IE when browsing a page on the server.

The reason for this is that the ip address has a period (.) in it so it thinks its external.

In the browsers add the ip address to the list of sites in the intranet zone by:

In Ie:
Tools, Options.
Select Local Intranet off the security tab.
Click Sites button
Click advanced
(add the site's ip on this page)

This should do the trick.

You can autodeploy this if the browsers were deployed using IEAK. (all this assumes you use IE).

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