Felipe Ferreira

MCT, MCITP Database Administrator, MCPD: Web Developer

Fixing Sharepoint 401.1 HTTP errors

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Occasionally after you install Sharepoint you can get the 401.1 HTTP error when you try to navigate to Sharepoint on the same domain, but when you try to access for an external network, everything seems to work fine. This happens 'cause when you are on the same domain IIS believe that you should be authenticating using Kerberos Authentication, and, for external machines, IIS try to use NTLM first. Both Kerberos and NTLM Authentication are part of the "Integrated Windows Authentication" option on IIS. As you probally didn't want to use Kerberos authentication, you haven't edited the IIS metabase to configure the SPN (service principal name) account, and, because of this, the Kerberos Authentication will always fail. To solve this issue, you can disable the Kerberos for the website, and use just the NTLM authentication for both internal and external requests. To do so follow this steps:
  1. Open the IIS Manager
  2. Expand the local computer and then click on Web Sites
  3. On the sites list, find the web site you want to change and take note of the Identifier column
  4. open the command prompt and navigate to the following folder: "C:\inetpub\adminscripts"
  5. run the following command:
    adsutil GET W3SVC/YOURID/Root/NTAuthenticationProviders

    change YOURID for your the ID of the website you want to change
  6. If the command returns "Negotiate,NTLM" then Kerberos is active for the website, to change this, just run the same command again, but with the SET parameter instead of GET and with the NTLM parameter:
    adsutil SET W3SVC/SEUID/Root/NTAuthenticationProviders NTLM
Posted: Mar 11 2008, 01:07 PM by Felipe Ferreira | with 3 comment(s)
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Links (3/11/2008) « Steve Pietrek’s SharePoint Stuff said:

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# March 11, 2008 9:42 PM

Raj P said:

Hi Felipe,

This is a great article. I have a question,

Whats the difference between

adsutil SET W3SVC/SEUID/Root/NTAuthenticationProviders NTLM

and

adsutil SET W3SVC/SEUID/NTAuthenticationProviders NTLM

In our environment adsutil GET W3SVC/SEUID/NTAuthenticationProviders, returns NTLM. But we still see a lot of 401.1 errors. Will it make a difference by adding the Root/ switch ?

Thanks

Raj  

# January 8, 2009 12:06 PM

jerry.chen said:

# May 25, 2009 1:18 PM
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