Question about IE7.0 / Vista

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Tim

Hello,

Not sure if I can post this here but would like to see if anyone has
encountered this.

Currently I have noticed that IE7.0 incorporates a layer of security called
"Protected Mode".

In my application I have a signed applet that is used to access network
shares on our intranet in order for users to access files located throughout
the network.

In IE7 running on Vista I can only get access to these drive if I disable
"Protected Mode". I was under the impression that if your applet was signed
that IE would allow the request to pass through. Apparently not.

I decided to run the same test under Firefox and noticed that I am not
presented with the same problem most likely because Firefox does not
incorporate this layer of security within its browser.

Has anyone encountered this and if so have you figured out a way to get a
signed applet or activeX control to pass through?

Thank you for your thoughts. I apologize if this post does not fall under
"General Questions" for Office.

Kind regards,

Tim
 
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Gyorgy Moldova [MVP]

there is no way of a "pass through" as the IEXPLORE.EXE has it's security
tokens stripped of, so there is no workaround on getting on a higher perm.
level.

in other words, even if IE wanted to grant full access to your signed
applet, it couldn't do it
 
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Tim

Gyorgy,

Thank you for your thoughts. I just wanted to clarify your statements:

"there is no way of a "pass through" as the IEXPLORE.EXE has it's security
tokens stripped of"

So even though the application resides in the "intranet zone" IE ignores the
trust?

I guess this is how MS wanted IE to work. To force the user to make a
decision about what access was being requested on their machine. Either
choose to disable "Protected Mode" or Add the application to the list of
"Trusted Sites".

Thank you for your thoughts.
 
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Gyorgy Moldova [MVP]

in those cases where admin perm is needed, the IEUSER.EXE pass-through
process is used, but please ask your question in the public.ie newsgroups.

hth
g
 
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