How do I competely erase a saved name is my users menu. Like everytime I use a program that I have to sign in to this name is there and I dont want it there. I cant figure it out...more >>

Hi,being a relatively ignorant person when it comes to computers,the fact that I don,t know if am asking the question to the right group of people in itself shows the little I do know about computer related factors.However ,if I don,t ask someone I won,t get anywhere. Fact is though I hav...more >>

I have the following configuration : windows 2k with all service packs sql 2k with all service packs when the "Anonymous Access" option of the IIS is unchecked for one of my virtual directory then i am getting a "PAGE CAN NOT BE DISPLAYED, DNS ERROR" after i enter correct user name,passwo...more >>

What does the symbol that is in a square with three shapes inside (square,triangle,circle)mean. It only appears when try to access things on a web site...more >>

My cousin has two email accounts; one at work and one at his law school. Both are completely unrelated and have two different passwords. Someone with a vendetta, and a lot of free time, has accessed both account's, copied sesitive emails and sent them by snail mail to his wife and...more >>

How can I allow .HTC files to be used from another domain? When I link to one on my server from another domain on my server I get an "Access is denied to http://..." error. This is part of my dynamic navigation system. I'm using Windows 2003. TIA ...more >>

I get the above error when I try to create a new project.using Interdev 6.0 and the message occurs when it wants a user name and password, but none of my passwords work. Seemed to work OK before i installed Symantec Internet Security! I get another error also, "You are not authorized to perfor...more >>

I would appreciate any help.........This is my sad story LOL.I have winme ops and Ie6 browser.I have a googles tool bar Well i have downloaded java and still unable to use the applets ....I can't open certain pictures or cards. I just get the red X in the corner. I have gone to tool secur...more >>

When I now click the drop down on the Internet Expoler's website address bar, all past typed in adresses start with "http://ehttp.cc/?" then the normal 'www.whatever' What does this mean? I've never seen this 'prefix' before....more >>

We are running II6 and some imp sites Hosted on it and some one hacked those sites and send it some samples of those sites by email, so can anyone help us how to secure the IIS6 and trace the hacker. Regards ...more >>

I have a site, say www.mysite.com with SSL cert installed. I would like to have a subdomain, say shop.mysite.com, that can use the same SSL cert. The subdomain physically points to a sub-directory of the doc root of www.mysite.com. Is this possibly to be done? Is it true that once the SSL is...more >>

I have a site, say www.mysite.com with SSL cert installed. I would like to have a subdomain, say shop.mysite.com, that can use the same SSL cert. The subdomain physically points to a sub-directory of the doc root of www.mysite.com. Is this possibly to be done? Is it true that once the SSL is...more >>

I cannot remove norton internet security from my pc. When I try it says only an account with supervisor access can do this. I shut itself down sometime ago now, so it's sitting and doing nothing, but won't go when I try to remove it. I've tried everything except a syst. restore, which I'm ...more >>

When I'm on a web page and I want to purchase something,when I try to pay for it it always goes to "this page cannot be displayed". I don't know how to get around this. I'm sure it's something in my security settings but I'm not sure what. Can someone please help me?...more >>

I built an ActiveX control for visualisation in a web page. When I load the page IE give me a warning : the control is unsafe ... To solve this problem I created a digital certificate using .NET SDK utilities or by a internal certification autority. I imported the certificate in my develop PC ...more >>

Can anyone help me stop spam. I have listed message rules to delete messages containing the words, 'viagra' 'penis' 'impotentence' 'breast' 'enlargemen t' 'mortgage' 'drug' 'drugs' drugstore' 'pharmacy' ad infintum. The e-mails still get to my inbox. Is there anyway to stop this?...more >>

I have an IIS-6 Web site written in Asp.Net and c# (code-behind) hosted by Windows 2003 Stand alone server. The website only allows "Integrated Windows Authentication". I need to allow my users to change their password using the ASP.Net website if they so desire. How do I do this programatically ...more >>

Hi everyone I just created my first website using IIS 6.0 and although I seem to be able to connect to it fine it keeps asking for a user name and password before allowing access. Anonymous user login is enabled and the default accounts have been added to the permissions. Please help....Thank you...more >>

I have no problems authenticating via AD and an ASP page. My question is this - is there any way to 'reverse' the process? What I mean is the authenticated state remains as long as the browser window is open. Is there any .asp command I can provide that will revert the browser session back t...more >>

Hi We have problems with IIS 5.0 on Windows 2000 Server SP4 ( and IIS on Windows 2003 Server) on several installations The problem is all these installations are open to relay, using the "%" bug If i connect to the mailserver "smtp.customerdomain.com" on port 25, and issue the following command...more >>

How do install a server certificate after the server has been reformatted - do I have to create a new certificate with the same details or what ? The original certificate request has been deleted....more >>

I removed AD from my webserver (win 2k3 small bus edition) and now my web sites say that I am not authorized to view the page (even from the web server itself). I check IIS (6.0) and it definitly has allow anonymous checked, I made sure that there is no integrated security checked, I also opene...more >>

There are great instructions on the web for force HTTPS for specific folder How to automatically change from http to https for a specific folde http://www.iisfaq.com/default.aspx?View=A407&P=2 But, my question would be ... Question ======== I am trying to set up a website with the followin...more >>

Today we had the Local Machine's IUSR_<computer name> account's password expire. Strange thing is that the account is set up with "password never expires" checked on the local machine, which is a member server only, not a DC. The Default domain policy is set to expire passwords every 180 days ...more >>

I have just set up a new web windows 2003 web server, published the web and sub webs over from the old server, have gone through and set up permissions on the root web and all the sub webs as required. The root web has anonymous browse while some of the sub webs have no anonymous browse, ...more >>

Recently one of my Windows 2000 server has a problem with the IIS. It hangs quite often with the IIS! User can't access the URL. I had to 'Stop' & 'Start' the "World Wide Web Publishing Service" to resolve temporary. What could be the caused of it??? ...more >>

I have created a website that can service multiple clients - completely data driven, base on the url entered, .ie client aaa enters via aaa.site.com client bbb enters via bbb.site.com However - I would like to have multiple certificates applied to the site for the secure components, one...more >>

Hello All, I'm developing a website (ASP, not ASP.NET) that allows users to post comments about articles. The ASP page displays the comments right out of the database. I'm worried that a rogue user might add some javascript or something to their comment so that it executes on other users' b...more >>

Hello, Hopefully got the right group for this query. Basically, I have just ordered a .NET domain name with oneandone.co.uk and for whatever reason they will not allow me to update the A-Records or change the nameservers, and I want to point the domain at my server (instead of the hosting p...more >>

Hi dear newsgroup, does anyone know, how i can give my webmaster the right to administer the iis 6.0 on my w2k3 domaincontroller without giving him admin-rights? thanks for help, peter ...more >>

Is this for real??? -----Original Message----- From: Alexejun, Sharon Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 8:27 AM To: Kitron, Debra; Lamirand, Pat; Rizzo, Linda; Brenda Fulton (E-mail); Carol Reeves (E-mail); Charlene Willmeng (E-mail); Donna_C_Appel (E-mail); Jackie Forrester (E- mail); Jill For...more >>

Dear all I'm in need of an explanation of secure websites and authenticated certificates. I believe that my understanding is particularly flawed.... What I understand is as follows - please comment/correct: When one wants to set up a secure web site, one has to generate a certificate. T...more >>

How can I disable HTTP Trace without using the URLScan tool? I need to disable HTTP Trace on IIS 4 and 5 and everytime I use that tool It messes us everything. Thanks in Advance....more >>

I am trying to make a new certifiate for one of my web sites(SSL). When i try, the wizard just make a txt file and tells me to send it. Who do i send it too? On one of the pages it asked me if i wanted to send the request immediately or later, the only one i can pick is later. How do i s...more >>

I'm trying to load the Nortel VPNClient and get a "severe error message stating that the registry file has invalid data. When I try to edit the Reg file with regedit it won't let me modify or delete the sub directory in question. How do I change the registry file?? Thanks...more >>

Hello - I am trying to configure IIS to work with my app. server. I have a ISAPI(SaISAPI.dll) in the scripts folder. When I access the dll using http://localhost/scripts/SaISAPI.dll I get the message that it is configured successfully, BUT I want to configure IIS such that the scripts par...more >>

I have 2 2003 domain controllers and one 2003 domain member as a web server IIS6, after setting up all users that are members of that domain need to enter the domainname\username and their password. Is there a way of not having to enter the domain name? or have I set something up wrong? ...more >>

People who try to reach our external website (which is nothing more than "brochure-ware") are getting a "403 Forbidden" error message. Now, I know for a fact that it was working just fine a few weeks ago. I edited the home page using FrontPage 2003, just last Wednesday, and from that point onwa...more >>

I have been told by Veritas that a work around to load a product on Windows server 2003 is to "Set IIS (v6) security defaults back to IIS v5 compatibility levels I can't find were that can be done. Any ideas than -Eric...more >>

hello out there! we came across some serious problems here - the situation: (system: win2003 server; iis6 and/or win2000 server; iis5; asp.net & asp applications; sql server 2000) usually we are using windows integrated, basic authentication over a ssl connection to impersonate a user whe...more >>

I'm in a bind. I have a new W2k3 server box with IIS6. I've uploaded an ASp.NET app which works fine on my dev machine. The virtual root is set to disable Anonymous Access and enable Integrated Security. NTFS perms are Everyone, Modify for the physical disk folder and subfolders. The ...more >>

Hi. I am public my DOCs .doc, .pdf, .ppt from my web site Windows 2000 SP4 its working good, but when apply the Certificate SSL, the clients do not open or save the documents Can you help me, tks Barry......more >>

Hi, Specs: AMD 900, 512MB, XP Pro Sp1, IIS 5.1 I'm setting up a website which will be using ASP.NET and thus .aspx pages. I have IIS 5.1 installed and running according to services and can read html pages served from the virtual directory created for this purpose. For some reason unkno...more >>

Hi, Let me first say I am not a complete novice at this, so I probably have all the common things done. But I am not very knowledgable and surely could have something screwed up. The user can access HTM files in secured folders but cannot access ASP files in that same folder. If I remove ...more >>

Hi there, VStudio.NET uses a temparary filename like '~~1230812309183091283.tmp' to check if the project folder of a ASP.NET project is shared in IIS. IIS 6 (Windows Server 2003) always returns a 404. Does any one know how to configure IIS to allow the 'tmp' extention? I already looked...more >>

Hello, We are using Exchange 2003 running on Windows 2003. We just found that IIS6 (OWA2003) denies access to Public Folders where the name ends with a period ".". How can I change the security configuration of IIS6 to allow users to view these public folders with Outlook Web Access ? Th...more >>

I have intranet application based on ASP.NET on Win2000AS (Framework 1.1). Website uses an Integrated Windows Authentication as Authentication method in IIS and has following security configuration in the web.config ------------------------------------------ <identity impersonate="false" /> ...more >>

This is my first and last windows based computer. I am in Real Estate, and I only need something to do simple tasks. That is pretty much impossible with this damn set up. I HATE it!!! Anyway, I keep getting these DAMN pop up's from Messenger. I would really like to turn that son of a ...more >>

I have IIS 5.0 installed on the same machine as a domain controller. I have now read that this is not a good idea, but at the time I made our server a domain controller -- I was not aware of that and it seems that it would be a major pain to put it back The server is used for our internal testing...more >>

Is there a limit to the amount of certificates that can be installed on a single IIS server?...more >>

With FrontPage, it is possible to set permissions (browse, author, admin) in order to grant or revoke access to subwebs. I would like to read this information (asp, vbscript or whatever) for all subwebs so I can generate a list of it. Setting permissions with a generated script is no probl...more >>

We are trying to migrate our FTP to a new box. We use local accounts on the old FTP server for security. How can we migrate those non-domain local account, with passwords, over to the new FTP server? ...more >>

Can anyone help please? For some reason all my cookies have been wiped and I cannot get the list back. Also not allowing new cookies on. Haven't installed new software - any ideas. Have checked Internet Security options, and cookies are enabled so why wont it allow cookies?...more >>

Hi Internet Explorer is keeping evething i type in search engines for easy reference, i thought it was a good idea at first, but now its annoying me, the list is now takes up 1/4 of my screen, how do i undo this Many thanks Ben...more >>

Hi, how do i stop internet explorer from keeping eveything i type in a search engine, the list is huge now and takes up 1/4 of my screen! Thanks Ben...more >>

Greetings, I have an ASP.NET (in C#) application which manipulates the IIS metabase via the IIS WMI provider. I am using impersonation (via System.Security.Principal.WindowsImpersonationContext rather than System.Management.ManagementScope) to gain authorized access to the WMI object. For d...more >>