| Paul Chavez 2004-10-29, 2:48 am |
| I have a working MCMS site that is allowing anonymous access. I believe
another administrator on the server changed the anonymous user in IIS (I am
still trying to verify), resulting in an inconsistency between IIS, SCA and
SiteManager. I believe this inconsistency was causing me to receive a simple
"Access denied" message when I attempted to browse to any page of my web site.
First, I updated Site Manager to grant access to both the old and new
anonymous user accounts and I was again able to browse to the site. However,
I didn't like have both accounts authorized, so I removed the old account and
the "Access denied" message returned.
Next, I updated SCA to set the Guest user account to match the anonymous
user account in IIS and the newly authorized account in Site Manager. I can
again browse to pages in my site.
I have 2 questions:
1) Am I right in guessing that the IIS anonymous user must be the same as
the SCA guest user?
2) Is there a published recommendation for configuring anonymous access?
(e.g. am I safe to use the IUSR account, or should I use Guest or a
specifically created account?)
Thank you,
Paul
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