What are the NTFS permissions on the files in question? What are the file
types?

Cheers
Ken


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I don't think so...you should be able to set the NTFS permissions from
Explorer, not IIS Manager.

In IIS Manager
- you need to ensure that "Allow Anonymous Authentication" is enabled
- you also need to ensure that the IIS Web Permission "Read" is enabled
(allows content to be read - required before NTFS ACLs are checked)

Cheers
Ken

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I wonder if we are having the same problem, and if so have you figured it out
yet? Server 2003, IIS 6.0. I can go to my own site fine, but internet users
are prompted for username and password (401.3). Here is the odd part: I am
using virtual directories to run separate sites. All three of them worked
just fine, until a few days ago. I have checked the IIS permissions, as well
as NTFS, and registry. They all seem to match. Now 2 out of 3 sites works
fine, and the third returns the error. From the Sharepoint administration
site--Checkserver health page, I checked the "repair" box on the "tighten
security" box, and like an idiot, I did it twice. I wonder if that could be
the problem, and if so how do I fix it? I also get persistent errors in the
event viewer: DCOM error Event ID 10002 Acess denied attempting to launck
DCOM server svr(00020906-0000-0000-c000-0000000046; also MSFPSE error:
ID=1000: Source=FrontPage 5.0-MS FP Server Extensions: error 3005f: unable to
read config. for MS IIS; and Info 1000 MSFPSE error reading IIS default Vroot
info. Also I have assigned full control to admin and sys. Help!!! The last
thing is that I am running a stand alone computer as a domain controller, and
the domain name is the same as the default first name site.

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