[Zope] strange authentication behavior...

[Jens Vagelpohl]

hi everyone,

i'm having a weird problem with authentication. here is the situation:

- i have a publicly accessible folder which has all the default 
security settings, everyone can view the documents.

- i have a subfolder named "images" containing images used in the 
documents of the public directory. this "images " folder inherits the 
default settings.

- another subfolder of the public directory is restricted to a 
username/password (which works fine and dandy), and documents in this 
subfolder use the images from the "images" public folder as well, they 
are not copied into the secured folder.

Here is the weirdness: 

When a user enters the restricted area everything shows fine, the 
documents and the pictures which are pulled from the unsecured 
directory. However, once the user "logs out" and returns to the 
unsecured area i am getting authentication screens asking for name and 
password when it tries to load the *pictures*. even if i try to use 
the name/password which gets me into the secured area they will not 
show and the password screens come back...

Anyone have any ideas? this is really strange...

Jens Vagelpohl