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Nick

2005-06-29, 2:48 am

My webpage is password protected, even though I never told it to be. I made
sure that anonymous access is enabled, and that by default all IP addresses
are allowed access. If I enter the password it loads fine. How can I get
rid of the password protection? I am running IIS 6.0 on Server 2003.
Kristofer Gafvert [MVP]

2005-06-29, 2:48 am

You also need to make sure that the files themselves are not protected.
Make sure that the anonymous user account used have read access to the
files.


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Nick wrote:

> My webpage is password protected, even though I never told it to be. I

made
> sure that anonymous access is enabled, and that by default all IP

addresses
> are allowed access. If I enter the password it loads fine. How can I

get
> rid of the password protection? I am running IIS 6.0 on Server 2003.

David Wang [Msft]

2005-06-29, 2:48 am

If you enabled anonymous access but still gets a password, it means either:
1. The resource is not ACL'd to allow access to the configured anonymous
user
2. The configured anonymous username/password in IIS is out of sync with the
real user

Real easy to figure it out -- look in IIS for the configured anonymous user,
see if it has read ACL to the resources being accessed, and check from IIS
configuration whether the user identity/password matches the one stored in
the local SAM. Also, if your machine is in a domain, there may be a group
policy that silently disabled your anonymous user for whatever reason
(password expiration, group membership, etc -- tons of ways for IT Admins to
do this to you) and you will have to fix it.

Bottom line: Enabling anonymous access does not mean that you will never see
the password dialog. Read:
http://blogs.msdn.com/david.wang/ar... mous_User.aspx

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//David
IIS
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"Nick" <Nick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:78967165-1CD0-438E-97A9-0AD4B9E0BBB1@microsoft.com...
My webpage is password protected, even though I never told it to be. I made
sure that anonymous access is enabled, and that by default all IP addresses
are allowed access. If I enter the password it loads fine. How can I get
rid of the password protection? I am running IIS 6.0 on Server 2003.


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