We are running an IIS 5 server on a Windows 2000 Server using Integrated Windows Authentication to connect to our ASP.NET application. All are able to connect properly except those users running IE on a Windows XP platform (both with and without SP2). We traced the problem to the use of ...more >>

Hello, Question, what is the TRUE purpose of having a certificate for a website? just to prove the authenticity? saying this is the REAL site? Regards, Jordan ...more >>

Greetings: You can call me crazy if you like, but I would like to create an additional authentication provider for IIS. I would like IIS to throw a 300 response (this bringing up the ever famous `porn challenge') and resolve the plain-text supplied credentials using my library instead of the ...more >>

Hello, I have an asp application with a logon form that posts form content (username and pw textbox) to itself in order to process and verify. If the application is set to windows integrated authentication in iis 6.0, form data is posted well and can be accessed in the target asp page via req...more >>

I ran the latest Windows update for Windows Server 2003 on 11/24/2004. After the security hotfixes in that update were applied, I started getting the following error when I try to run a local ASP.NET Web Application in the Visual Studio .NET 2003 debugger: http://localhost/aspnet_client/sy...more >>

hi i have installed a small script on a virtual web called explore.aspx this is able to explore my whole c:\ directory, as the user asp.net is a member of the group "Domain User / User" and this user does has read permission on the whole drive c:\ how can i prevent this? is it necessary th...more >>

I have just installed the Front Page 2002 Server extensions onto my Windows 2000 server platform. I was wanting to fix one problem but created many others. It has removed the security of all of the individual users from their directories and when I add them back into the NTFS file system the...more >>

I have an IIS 5.0 server hosting multiple sites that point to the same code base. The host is the only part of the FQDN that changes per customer. The domain for all the sites will always be samedomain.com. All the sites resolve to the same IP so I use Host Header Name in IIS to direct traffic. ...more >>

I have gone through the request for certificate wizard in IIS. It's not really clear about who to send the request to. I went to Verisign's website and purchasing a certificate is EXPENSIVE!!! Is there anyway to do this free or cheap? How can I get a free/cheap certificate??? Thanks ...more >>

Hi all, Currently I have change one of our intranet website to Integrated windows authentication mode in IIS5.0 ,the website is use to let the system administrator to create user account/group in Active Directory. The are several problem happen after this change ,the account creation with h...more >>

I am trying to deploy an asp.net application on IIS 6 and when i try to access any of the pages using the "localhost" then it works, when i try to use the IP address of the computer, then I am getting an ACL error saying that "you are not authorized to view this resource" and the page cannot...more >>

Getting the http error of "HTTP/1.1 403 Access Forbidden Server" which tells me that it is not utilizing the security certificate that is installed on IIS. Additionally the error message states Secure Channel Client Authentication Required This virtual directory requires a browser that sup...more >>

Hi, I have spent hours doing research on this item and found many people with the same problem and no answers. I have an ASP web application that connects to MS SQL 2000. I was running it on Win2000 just fine, no problems whatsoever. We upgraded to Win2003 and now ASP pages take forever to ...more >>

I need to access files via SSL-encrypted WebDAV from our server at a remote site from locked-down workstations, basically with IE6 configured with limited functionality and only a few apps. The connection needs to be dropped when the browser is closed. The secure web site address can be fo...more >>

I've setup a website using Basic Authentication and SSL in IIS 5. The only people that can be authenticated are people with administrative rights, despite the fact that the file security on the wwwroot folder allows Everyone read access. Does anyone know why members of the User group can't a...more >>

How many certificates can I have on a single IIS server?...more >>

Can anyone point me to some good doco on running a custom app pool under a domain account? I have searched google and found nothing that is really good. Kevin ...more >>