I'm trying to get Live Writer to work with a WSS 3.0 SP2 farm server. This has worked before, and I just keep getting prompted for credentials even though I am the site collection administrator. i can log into the web site fine via the web browser with these credentials. In the IIS logs for this web application I am getting: 2010-06-28 10:35:18 <IPADDRESS> POST /_layouts/metaweblog.aspx - 80 - <IPADDRESS>Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+8.0;+Windows+NT+6.1;+Windows+Live+Writer+1.0) 401 5 0 1164 The server is also running Plesk administrator service which manages the mail on the server, other than that it is a vanilla Windows Server 2008 server. Any suggestions? SharePoint Solution Architect, Perth Australia - Microsoft Virtual Technology Specialist - MCTS WSS Dev, WSS Adm, MOSS Dev, MOSS Adm - http://wss.made4the.net/ - Founder of http://www.sharepointdevwiki.com/

I noticed your using ther IPAddress have you added the IP Address to your AAM Settings? -IvanIvan Sanders My LinkedIn Profile, My Blog, @iasanders.

The ipaddress is just masked out from the IIS logs snapshot above. Isn't that what you'd expect in them isn't it and not host header addresses? I masked them but to be honest if you ping my blog you'll see it anyway ;-0 2010-06-28 10:40:54 62.233.101.254 POST /_layouts/metaweblog.aspx - 80 - 124.148.206.69 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+8.0;+Windows+NT+6.1;+Windows+Live+Writer+1.0) 401 5 0 1145 I can't add the IP address to the AAM because I'm using host headers and I have multiple sites running off port 80 with host headers. Appreciate your feedback, can you explain further your question around ip address?SharePoint Solution Architect, Perth Australia - Microsoft Virtual Technology Specialist - MCTS WSS Dev, WSS Adm, MOSS Dev, MOSS Adm - http://wss.made4the.net/ - Founder of http://www.sharepointdevwiki.com/

I ran Process Monitor as I tried to login via Live Writer and found some references to metadata.aspx here: 14:57:19.2466391 w3wp.exe 5012 CreateFile C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\template\layouts\metaweblog.aspx\web.config PATH NOT FOUND Desired Access: Generic Read, Disposition: Open, Options: Synchronous IO Non-Alert, Non-Directory File, Attributes: N, ShareMode: Read, Write, AllocationSize: n/a THAKEW79\sp_made4thenet Not sure why it's looking for that file there as it definitely doesn't exist. I couldn't see any errors in there for access is denied. SharePoint Solution Architect, Perth Australia - Microsoft Virtual Technology Specialist - MCTS WSS Dev, WSS Adm, MOSS Dev, MOSS Adm - http://wss.made4the.net/ - Founder of http://www.sharepointdevwiki.com/