I am wanting to try out Windows Sharepoint Services on my Windows 2008 Box at home.
The Windows 2008 Server is a domain controller.
I have installed IIS 7, Active Directory, SQL 2008 Standard and downloaded Windows Sharepoint Services 3 SP2.
I setup first hostnames in the DNS Server called sharepoint, I went into IIS7 created a website using the hostname sharepoint and sharepoint.domain.local worked fine.
Deleted the Website from IIS
Then I installed Windows Sharepoint Services
configured it and created a Sharepoint site called Sharepoint configured the hostname to be sharepoint.domain.local
Configured a site for sharepoint.domain.local which is a Sharepoint Wiki template
Now when I go to access either sharepoint.domain.local its asks for a username and password I have tried everything from username password for the windows login to domain\username and and password.
it brings up the login box 3 times as the username password it wrong then after the third attempt it displays a white screen.
How do I fix this.
Thanks
Matthew
You could be running into a local loopback problem. The problem occurs when the website uses Integrated authentication, and has a name that is mapped back to the local loopback address.
The fix is to go to the following registry key:
Add a new DWORD value named DisableLoopbackCheck and give it a value of 1. After setting the value reboot your server.
For further details, check out this KB article:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896861
The site must be in the local intranet zone to use integrated authentication (from a domain joined computer)
I have found that if you are using Active Directory and set up a user to "Change password on next login", it will prompt for a password but not log in. It will try three times and then simply display a white screen and nothing. Simply set the user to Password never expires, and the problem goes away (at least for us it did). Hope this helps someone.