[There's a reason that Yoda is the unofficial mascot of SBS. Size indeed matters not.] When you have a SBS 2003 that has SharePoint v2 AND SharePoint v3 in a side by side setup you may find that you get a constant prompt for a password. - THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS DIVA
Mon, Apr 12 2010 23:46 bradley

When you have a SBS 2003 that has SharePoint v2 AND SharePoint v3 in a side by side setup you may find that you get a constant prompt for a password.

Sharing courtesy of Mark --

When you have a SBS 2003 that has SharePoint v2 AND SharePoint v3 in a side by side setup you may find that you get a constant prompt for a password.

Remember this is a side by side install as follows:

Installing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on a Server Running Windows Small Business Server 2003
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0daafc81-efff-4f5b-a28a-8265f1e99f5b&displaylang=en

http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive/2006/11/30/wss-v3-0-installation-on-sbs-2003.aspx

So now that you do have it side by side and you get that constant password prompt on the V3 site, how do you get rid of it when the update for SBS 2003 doesn't work in V3?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896861


The article says you need to restart the server, however an IISRESET is all that is actually needed.
This can be automated with the following quick BLOCKED SCRIPT


Path = "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\DisableLoopbackCheck"
Set WSHShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
WSHShell.RegWrite Path, 1, "REG_DWORD"

And that's how you fix it!
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