Actually the only ports open to this machine are 25 and 443, all the others are blocked and it still works fine. Probably because this machine is not in a demil zone.... I didn't want all those ports open back and forth into the trusted so I forego the defense in depth and place stronger policies on the box and better monitoring of the connections. I also get the lockout policies invoked which are quite draconian, (3 tries and out for 3 days), which I believe the Basic does not afford me.

I tried the basic auth with the default set to my domain and it gave me the two boxes but refused to authenticate me...... Go figure..... So in my tinkering I put both Integrated and Basic on it, got the three boxes and everything has been swimming ever since except those durned XP boxes......

I'll have someone try the mydomain\username tactic and see what happens....

Thanks