Authentication on .xls Files

When I try to open to modify, or just preview an xls document, the system asks me for my Credentials. It doesn't happen when i do the same with other kind of documents like .doc or .ppt.
I'm running SAP EP 6 SP 13, using a fsdb repository. The files are located on a Windows server.
Thanks in Advance,
Fede

Hi Fede,
see the following Weblog:
/people/john.mittendorf/blog/2005/07/29/disabling-secondary-popup-when-accessing-office-2003-documents-through-km
We had the same issue and solved it by using windows-integrated authentication.
Hope it helps
Helge

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All of a sudden, using Numbers '09 I can no longer open certain .xls files that I created in the first place by saving .numbers files as Excel files (using the "Save copy as Excel Document" checkbox in the Save As... dialog box). Some will open, but the vast majority attempt to open, and then I get an "Import Error - An unknown error occurred." message. Backed up copies of the same files produce the same result. New .numbers files I save as Excel documents can't open either.
Background: Earlier tonight while saving a .numbers file as an Excel Document, the blue "progress" bar got about halfway and then just hung there. Having not rebooted the computer for a couple of weeks, and lots of apps open, I proceeded to shut down other processes and eventually the blue progress bar finished and an Excel file was saved. However, after rebooting the computer, the above inability to open Excel files started to occur. Something in the "save as" process must have corrupted?
I quit Numbers, deleted the com.apple.iwork.numbers.plist file from Library/preferences, emptied trash, and restarted Numbers -- but that didn't solve the problem.
What would you all suggest now at this point? Would reinstalling Numbers solve this? (hmmn, where is that disc?) I'm personally fine with the .numbers format, but my clients are not, hence the need to save as Excel documents. Any help would be appreciated!

ack, this whole thing is frustrating. I can create new .numbers documents, save them as Excel documents, and those resulting .xls documents will open fine. HOWEVER, if I grab an old .xls document from a time machine backup (over a month ago), I cannot open it. Nor can I open an newly saved .xls document saved from the same original .numbers file.
It would seem that the only thing I can do now is take those old .numbers files and copy/paste the content into a brand new .numbers file. After saving as, the resulting .xls files open fine (with the usual "import warnings", but I'm used to those )

Can't open .xls file in numbers '09

Please help, I just purchased iwork '09 and installed recently. I'm using Mac OS X 10.6.8, numbers '09 version 2.0, pages '09 version 4.0. When I try to open an .xls file the error is given 'Numbers quit unexpectedly while using the SFCompatibility plug-in.'
I saw a post from 2010 that suggested updating iwork '09 to numbers 2.0.3 and pages 4.0.3 but when I check for software updates it gives none for iwork. I have not changed the original location or name of the folder/file of where the iwork files were installed automatically.
I've also deleted the com.apple.iwork.numbers.plist (& the Pages one) located in HD > Users > (your account) > Library > Preferences that was also suggested from this post from 2010.
Thanks!

The latest version of Numbers is 2.3, but that is for Lion & Mountain Lion. For Snow Leopard you should have Numbers 2.0.4. iWork '09 installed from the retail disk or from the downloaded trial must be updated through Software Update. Those installations will not be recognized as installed by the Mac App Store.
But, as always, if you're not running the latest versions of the iWork apps installed from a retail box or the downloaded trial & Software Update says your software is up to date, make sure all three of the iWork '09 applications are where the installer initially put them. The updaters are very picky. If the location is not where the updater is programmed to look or if the folder doesn't have the name the updater looks for, it will not work. The applications cannot be renamed or moved. If you installed from the downloaded trial or the retail box, they must be in the iWork '09 folder in Applications. That iWork folder must be named iWork '09. If it doesn't have the '09 Software Update won't find them & the updaters won't work.

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