You are repeatedly prompted to enter your user credentials when you try to rename a subsite in FrontPage 2003 (828903)

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003, when used with:
- Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services

For a Microsoft FrontPage 2002 version of this article, see 295738.

SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003, when you open a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services subsite and you try to rename the subsite by using the Site Settings dialog box, you are repeatedly prompted to enter your user name and password. As a result, you cannot rename the subsite.

CAUSE

This behavior may occur if you are member of the Administrator site group on the Windows SharePoint Services subsite but you are not a member of the Reader site group on its parent site.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this behavior, do one of the following as appropriate to your situation:

Ask the site collection administrator to rename the subsite for you.
Log on as a user who is a member of the Administrator site group on the subsite and who is also a member of the Reader site group on the parent site, and then rename the subsite.

MORE INFORMATION

For additional information about how to troubleshoot a similar issue in FrontPage 2002, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

295738 F002: Cannot Rename a Subweb in SharePoint Team Services

For more information about FrontPage, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://office.microsoft.com/home/office.aspxassetid=FX01085802

Modification Type:	Minor	Last Reviewed:	1/9/2006
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