We have the most strange situation here when IE7 clients try to authenticate on an IIS6-based intranet application. I hope somebody can help me explain. Our .asp application is running in domain "belgium.local". Integrated Windows authentication works fine for users in that domain. Users in...

Hello, I used to work with IIS in 2002 and am starting again in IIS6. I maintain a server with 3 websites on it: the default web site and two others. IIS has been configured allowing anonymous access to the content on all sites AFAIK. NTFS permissions seem to be set correctly as well. Here's the...

I have an intranet ASP.NET 2.0 web app running on a Win 2003 SP2 server running IIS 6.0 that gives intermittent and, as yet, un-reproduceable username/password prompts for some of our users. I'm using authentication mode="Windows" in my ASP.NET app and Integrated Windows authentication...

In the IIS logs, our client has found a bunch of 403.7 64 's being logged. Most of them are to /VirtualDirectoryName, for example: 2008-10-30 06:41:00 W3SVC3 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx GET /VirtualDirectoryName - 443 - xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+7.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+.NET+CLR+2.0.50727;+.NET...

Hi, If I have a local website with Integrated Windows Authentication I can access it fine via http://localhost and http://127.0.0.1 . However if I put an entry into the machine's hosts file e.g. 127.0.0.1 mysite http://mysite does not work. When hitting this website an entry is created in the security...

Bound by timescales, and wanting to password protected one directory on our website I setup the website to allow Anonymous access and Windows Authentication. I then created a Windows User and gave them file permissions to the folder I wanted to restrict and removed the IIS User. This all worked fine...

I'm hosting multiple web sites on a single server. As a security baseline I assigned a dedicated application pool for every site, each running its own user account for application pool identity. I also want to use Kerberos authentication with all my sites. So, to make Kerberos work, I have to register...

Hi. Got a problem here. Having installed and configured an intranet SharePoint v2 on a server with local user accounts , I showed everything to the site administrators and everything worked fine using Windows Authentication with Anonymous turned off. However, the restricted users have to repeatedly enter...

Hi, I'm new at Windows administration and coming from a unix admin background (I can hear the groans already). I've just been given the task of administering our clients user accounts and security on a Windows 2003 server running IIS 6.0 and Active Directory 5.2.3790.1830. What I'm trying to achieve...

Hi, I have some very basic questions regarding windows authentication, which are as follows: 1) Which all users would get authenticated in case of windows authentication. - Users in the Active Directory of the domain in which the application is hosted. - Local Users of machine where the application is...