Re: 401.1 Question

From: Bernard (qbernard_at_hotmail.com.discuss)
Date: 02/24/05


Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 11:13:48 +0800

I would enable logon auditing to capture what's wrong with it, as 401.1
indicate a failed login. most likely the password.

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"WC Justice" <BJustice@wcje.com> wrote in message 
news:Ng5Td.7598$Q47.6480@bignews5.bellsouth.net...
> Yes to both questions.
>
> At the point where Anonymous Access is enabled, the IUSR_<machine> account 
> appears (automatically) with the password included in hidden format.
>
> The same IUSR account and settings are used for the other sites, all 
> inheriting the same permissions.
>
> The IUSR user account is set that the password never expires and that the 
> user cannot change the password.
>
> I tried deleting the newly-created site and re-creating it through the 
> wizard again, but to no avail.
>
> I've tried googling this, but the situations all seem to involve sites 
> where Windows authentication is desired.  One response suggested that the 
> IUSR account's password had changed, but that would affect the other sites 
> as well.
>
> I was hoping that this was one of those things that someone else has heard 
> of.
>
> Thanks
>
> "Steven Burn" <somewhere@in-time.invalid> wrote in message 
> news:%236sN6GeGFHA.552@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Don't have IIS 6 myself (use IIS 5), but have you made sure IIS is set to 
> control the password for the annonymous account?, and IUSR_<machine> has 
> permissions for the folder containing the site's files?
>
> -- 
> Regards
>
> Steven Burn
> Ur I.T. Mate Group
> www.it-mate.co.uk
>
> Keeping it FREE!
>
> "WC Justice" <BJustice@wcje.com> wrote in message 
> news:AR4Td.7484$Q47.3906@bignews5.bellsouth.net...
>> I am running iis 6.0 through SBS 2003.  I host several of my own sites, 
>> some
>> of which use SQL Server or Access as back ends, and some of which are 
>> just
>> plain sites.  I added another site yesterday evening (an ASP/SQL Server
>> site) using the wizard, and although I enabled Anonymous Access via IUSR, 
>> I
>> am still forcee to go through Windows authentication.  Once I go through
>> authentication, the site works perfectly.  This does not seem to be a SQL
>> Server issue because IUSR is the only user in the database, and I
>> temporarily removed all pages from the site and replaced the home page 
>> with
>> index.htm, which didn't change anything performance-wise.
>>
>> As far as I know, I have set up the site identically with the other 
>> sites.
>> The permissions on the site folder are inherited from the WebSites folder
>> which contains the other sites' folders.
>>
>> I am going nuts checking and re-checking all of the obvious things.  Am I
>> missing something?
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>>
>
> 


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