Hello, can anyone explain to me why IUSR_machine needs the "Access this computer from network" account right? As far as I understand IIS's impersonation, the app pool identity (network service or whatever) impersonates this user to access local ressource (e.g. html file) during anonymous...

I am playing around with IIS 7 on vista home premium to setup a website. I created a test.html page and placed it into the wwwroot directory. I can access it by navigating to localhost. However when accessing from a public network I keep getting the username and password logon window. I have configured...

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...

Hi Everyone, I'm trying to secure a Shared Hosting Environment on a Windows 2003 Server / IIS 6 My approche so far: 1) created an Application Pool User for each of the Site (all members of the IIS_WPG Group) 2) created an Application Pool for each Site and assigned them to the Sites 3) assigned the...