Hi, I have set up a password protected directroy as follows: <Directory /srv/www/htdocs/excel> AuthType Basic AuthName "Access for Excel Files" AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/excel-files require user 9034001 </Directory> This dir contains MS Excel files. The Internet Explorer asks me for the username and password as expected. When I click on one of the Excel files, Excel comes up and asks me a second time for a username and passwort. I guess that for apache a second application wants to access this dir and therefore it asks for the data, again. Does anyone of you know a trick to get rid of the second authentication window? Thanks in advance, Stefan -- ******************************************** in-put GbR - Das Linux-Systemhaus Stefan-Michael Guenther Moltkestrasse 49 D-76133 Karlsruhe Tel./Fax : +49 (0)721 / 83044 - 98/93 http://www.in-put.de ******************************************** Schulungen Installationen Beratung Support ******************************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx