invalid credentials rejection from all urls (http and https)

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invalid credentials rejection from all urls (http and https)

[elvza]

Hello grawcho, we just ran into the same thing here at my office.

The reason why it wasn't working for us is because we enabled basic auth at the wrong level in IIS. Instead of enabling it on the application "Sites/Team Foundation Server**/tfs"** we enabled it directly on the site "/Sites/Team Foundation Server". After correcting this oversight it started working as expected.

No restart of the "Team Foundation Server" site was required in our case. Hope this helps.

[grawcho]

correction ... issue is persistent from windows client as well (checking Network configuration with IT) same machines are able to connect to VSTS instance with PAT and Basic Auth with no issues.

[grawcho]

thanks.
i'll try and report back

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 6:00 PM, Elmar Vosloo [email protected]
wrote:

Hello grawcho, we just ran into the same thing here at my office.

The reason why it wasn't working for us is because we enabled basic auth
at the wrong level in IIS. Instead of enabling it on the application "Sites/Team
Foundation Server/tfs" we enabled it directly on the site "/Sites/Team
Foundation Server". After correcting this oversight it started working
as expected.

No restart of the "Team Foundation Server" site was required in our
case. Hope this helps.

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[grawcho]

just tried ... no luck ... thanks.

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 6:05 PM, shani feldman [email protected] wrote:

thanks.
i'll try and report back

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 6:00 PM, Elmar Vosloo [email protected]
wrote:

Hello grawcho, we just ran into the same thing here at my office.

The reason why it wasn't working for us is because we enabled basic auth
at the wrong level in IIS. Instead of enabling it on the application "Sites/Team
Foundation Server/tfs" we enabled it directly on the site "/Sites/Team
Foundation Server". After correcting this oversight it started working
as expected.

No restart of the "Team Foundation Server" site was required in our
case. Hope this helps.

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[elvza]

As an aside the exact display message we got back (stock command prompt), personal details removed and i see one difference, we're using version 0.3.13...:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0>tfx login --auth-type basic
TFS Cross Platform Command Line Interface v0.3.13
Copyright Microsoft Corporation

Service URL: http://<tfs_hostname>:/tfs/collection
Username: domain\username
Password: ***
Invalid credentials.

Hope you find an answer soon.

[grawcho]

thanks everyone for your inputs.
the issue was: configure basic authentication for iis for entire Team Foundation site,
and logging in to the https://:/tfs (without collection path)
and logging in with DOMAIN\USERNAME (from command line in Linux needs to add escaping character DOMAIN\USERNAME)

and the magic happens.

Logged in successfully.

[grawcho]

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