Hi to you all, I am just about to head into the world of IIS and build a Web Server, as we would like to Install OWA for Exchange. Question 1 Which versions of IIS can I use with Windows NT Server. Question 2 What would be the recommended way to secure the IIS server. TIA Iain ...more >>

Sorry if on wrong place but there are none for my queery. How do I change my "Hotmail" password? Thank you...more >>

I have a question. I want my developers to be able to log on to a W2K or W23 server with IIS running using Terminal services and be able to see the IIS MMC but not make any changes to anything. A true read only access. Is that possible? ...more >>

HER IS THE SCENARIO: We have a jsp webapp that uses Tomcat We have an isapi_redirector to redirect requests for JSP pages to tomcat We have a virtual directory in IIS under the default web site that points to our web app root dir We have a SSL certificte available for use We have an ASP page ...more >>

I have an ASP application, and for the first time I'm trying to use Windows Authentication. I have it working on my development machine (XP/IIS5.1), ie if I call the authentication page from my machine it *seems* to work. However, when I copied the pages to my development server, and tired c...more >>

I am trouble shooting at a client site that has windows server 2003 & IIS 6. Our install sets up IIS to have anonymous access & windows authentication enabled (no other access is enabled). NTFS permissions are setup so that the anonymous user (IUSR_<machinename>) has read and execute permissions on ...more >>

Not sure if I should be posting this to the IIS Security as it may be more closely related to a Reporting Services problem. Unfortunatly I do not see a managed News group for reporting services. Basically the problem is that I am getting an error when I try to run a report on the server tha...more >>

I need a way to protect asp include files. My fear is that a user may stumble across one, causing who knows what to happen. As a first step, I want to rename all the include files from .asp to .inc. Then I want to lock down IIS so that users will get a 404 error whenever they try to access a i...more >>

Hello all, I'm having some trouble with getting my IIS server working correctly with anonymous users. Current we have an IIS server sitting in the DMZ that is not part of the internal Windows domain which needs to access Active Directory. To gain access to Active Diretory I've changed the ...more >>

Wondering if it is possible to install SFTP with IIS 6.0 or whether i would still need to install a third party software. Thanks for the help. Ryan...more >>

Dear Sir Good Day I have received an e - mail from a certain Fllora Adams ( e-mail address flloradams@hotmail.com ) of the EAAS Lottery Scam notifying me that I have won $250,000 prize of the 13th August 2004 Euro - Afro - Asian Sweepstake lottery International sponsored by Mr. Bill ...more >>

History: We want to use IIS for Intranet as middletier application with Kerberos Delegation. When we start IIS6.0 service under LocalSystem account - Kerberos delegation dont work. We can see in Event Log that Kerberos Logon was successful to IIS , but IIS requests SQL Server Database ...more >>

We are implementing an ASP.NET application which uses forms authentication but authenticates using Active Directory in a Windows 2000 domain. (I used MSDN article 326340 to help me set all of this up.) I have found that some of my users can log into the new ASP.NET application just fine, but ...more >>

Our Ex engineer left some backdoor code into our web server and he attacked the server 3 times already via his backdoor codes. He formated all our data after he broke into our server every time. Our server is Windows 2K server and SQL server 2K. Our web server is ASP based with some V...more >>

The error : The file associated with this document has been moved or deleted outside of Dreamweaver. You may want to resave the document before continuing. The technet article says that this is caused by caching being enabled on file handles. They have many Dreamweaver systems that are w...more >>

I've got a Crystal Reports for Visual Studio.NET 2003 that I wrote. Up until now, I have been able to run it just fine, however, I had to change the access method to use Active Directory. (It uses forms authentication but authenticates against Active Directory.) Now, it no longer can run the ...more >>

A few questions... 1) I have set up a virtual directory under the default web site called Acuity that points to my web application. I have setup up the Acuity directory to 'require Secure channel' on the 'Directory Security' tab after Rclicking on Acuity and choosing properties. I am noticing th...more >>

I have setup an FTP server with IIS on a Windows 2000 Server. I am wondering how I can set it up so that the account I have created that has access to the FTPROOT dir can only upload files but not download anything. Is this something I would have to configure on my firewall or is there a way t...more >>

I have setup the IISADMPWD function to change passwords via a web browser or OWA. Hotfix has been applied for problem noticed with truncated name. When an attempt is made to change a password the following error occurs. ERROR: *** Either the password is too short or password uniqueness r...more >>

I have hosted OWA on a Domain Controller running Windows 2000. When trying to logon I get the following error: HTTP 401.1 - Unauthorized: Logon Failed I done the below steps but I'm still not able to logon http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en- us;263140&Product=iis50 Any i...more >>

simple setup, simple code, bizarre results. Client: Windows XP hitting a local NT4 server running IIS 4 sp6 Code run on the client: <script language=javascript> var fso=new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject"); var theFile theFile=fso.CopyFile("//192.16...more >>

Hi, Running IIS5 on Windows 2000. We have a web-site running, accessible from the "outside" as www.yyy.zzz The question is: Is it possible to access this web-site from within the domain? Whenever I try to call www.yyy.zzz, I get a login popup. Of course, I'm authenticated within our dom...more >>

Is there ANY way at all to access a private server through a public server? Server 1 is accessible via the internet. Server 2 is not accessible via the internet. I need to create some sort of link so I may access an area of server 2 from a web link on server 1. Please say this is possi...more >>

Hi. I am troubleshooting a problem at a customer site. I have never mixed authentication on servers so I do not know what is supposed to happen. If I have a server with a site that has anonymous AND windows integrated auth set up, and a person hits a web page on that site, whose credentials are u...more >>

Hi, I need some advise on how to set up a simple IIS to assist my users to change their domain user password using IIS. I understand that I will need to use IISADMPWD. Appreciate some advise and assistance. Thanks. Philip...more >>

I am using basic authentication to grant users access to a secure page that I am hosting. When they try to log they are unable to. In the event viewer I get: Logon Failure: Reason: The user has not been granted the requested logon type at this machine User Name: testuser Domain: M...more >>

I need to know how to remove restricted access to a web site. I initially set the site up for Integrated authentication. Then, I installed FrontPage Server Extensions 2002. I thought that I would be able to set specific users through the Administration Page. However, this option was not a...more >>

Since I've installed windows XP service pack 2 I have no access to software HTML manuals, HTML CD-ROM books and databases I've purchased a few years ago. I guess this is a security configuration problem produced by the service pack in the internet explorer. I haven't try with a different br...more >>

I have set up a new web site under iis 5 and everything works great, but I have a guy that is going to do some of the authoring and when he uses front page to open the site he gets an access denied error. I set him up as an operator and gave him permissions to the site under the security tab....more >>

I setup an env as below: A w2k3 server sps.xxx.edu is running IIS(SharePoint Server installed), it's in domain xxx.edu, not controller. A unix kdc for realm: REALM.xxx.edu, necessary princs created using enctype:des-cbc-crc. A domain controller ad.xxx.edu, w2k3, 2-way trust with unix realm ...more >>

Hi, i have a IIS 6 on Windows 2003. On one of the websites i host, they have one ASP they use for entering data. They wanted to secure that one page. So i made a user with a password, then in the Windows Explorer on the security settings of that ASP i removed the IIS_USER and added the new...more >>

Hallo, I have problems to get IISADMPWD work through a firewall. The Account Domain ist on the internal Network and the IIS 6 with IISADMPWD + Exchange 2003 (FE OWA) is in a DMZ. I have enable IISADMPWD an Users can access this site over OWA and HTTPS. But Password Changes can't be made. The A...more >>

RECENTLY, TWO BOXES HAVE BEGUN TO APPEAR ON XP DESKTOP ON STARTUP. THEY ARE ON UNRELATED PROGRAMS AND DID NOT START SHOWING UP AT THE SAME TIME. CLEARING THEM FROM THE DESKTOP PRIOR TO SHUTDOWN DOES NOT KEEP THEM FROM REAPPEARING ON THE NEXT STARTUP. ONE OF THE BOXES IS "WINDOWS XP STAR...more >>

I have recently upgraded a WinNT 4 Web Server to 2003. On NT4 the server was in a workgroup of its own, on upgrade it is a member of an Active Directory domain. I have an area of the site which requires users to log on. The area is configured to use integrated windows authentication, with a...more >>

I had a similar post earlier but this is more descriptive of the problem: Something is wrong with the way users are authenticating to my IIS. I set up a test user called 'testuser.' I want the user to be able to log into the internal homepage. When I try to log onto the internal homepage, I e...more >>

Hi. I have a website configured for windows integrated authentication with Anonymous access enabled (using default IIS anonymous user account). On this website I have "isapi" sub-folder and in it "MyIsapi.dll". Directory/file security for both is the same as for the rest of the site. NTFS per...more >>

Hi When attaching a document in Outlook you get the option to share this attachment in a work space. How does one make this work? What needs to be set up, and how? Running Win2k3, Exch2k3. Any help appreciated. Eirik ...more >>

I would like some pointers on the recommended way to setup a large MS FTP website such that: (1) Domain and local users can use the website (2) User/Group administration is easy. I have looked for many models that offer both, but have found none. Surely there must be one out there. Any s...more >>

Has anyone seen this error before- The account that the current worker process is running under does not have SeTcbPrivilege privilege, the anonymous password sync feature and the Digest authentication feature are disabled. How can I correct it....more >>

Hi I've got a Sharepoint 2003-Server which runs with integrated windows authentication. Now I want to allow some customers to access that server. The problem is that they have to authenticate through a reverse-proxy (Novell iChain). Now I don't want that they have to re-enter their user-crede...more >>

Hello, I've set up an IIS 5 webserver running http, ftp, and smtp. I've assigned an IPSec policy to accept connections to the following ports: 20, 21, 25, 53 (tcp and udp), and 80. I can connect to the website fine, and ftp in also, but the smtp server is not able to send email msgs. They hang...more >>

Hi all, since i patched my server to the .NET framework 1.1 SP1 rss on my web site (http://www.Dotnet-Project.com) cannot diplay its content. By looking to the headers, i can see that the content-type header is not present and the content-lenght is equal to 0. I am sure that this problem ...more >>

I am using iis 6 on a W2K3 box .....I have set up my first SSL site....and when I point my browser to https://localhost/ I get my page, but when I it is pointed to http://localhost/ I just get an error saying that I need to type a "s" after the "http" because it is secure .. How can I set up ii...more >>

G/Day Forum, I'm currently hardening access to all my IIS 5.0 and IIS 6.0 servers, that are located within multiple DMZ environments in multiple locations. All servers are Firewalled and are administered through VPN's using Terminal Services/RDP. Recently, I encountered a (self induced)p...more >>

how secure is the ftp that comes with sindows xp pro and also looking for information on best practice in configurinig a secure ftp server....more >>

In IIS4, I had a subdirectory that restricted access to one user account requiring login/pwd; but under that, another subdirectory that gave permission back to the anonymous account not requiring login/pwd. I can't get this to work in IIS6. I've checked directory permission in IIS and ma...more >>

When I try to request a certificate from the CA authority Web enrollment page(same server as iis is installed member server to domain)I get this error:No certificate templates could be found. You do not have permission to request a certificate from this CA, or an error ...more >>

We have a Win2K3 Server running an ASP .NET application that connects to a Win2K3 server running SQL 2000 on the backend. Whenever a user opens the application page in their client browser they get the error message: "The following error occurred whilst loading the page: Login failed for user...more >>

I have Windows XP installed on my home computer, and am using it for website development. I had the "site" set up for anonymous authentication. I recently upgraded to Windows XP SP2, and it looks like I also got upgraded to IIS 5.1 in the process. After I upgraded, IIS was actually not ...more >>

To All: I recently upgraded to Server 2003 from NT 4.0.....During the upgrade it upgraded me from IIS 5.0 to IIS 6.0. Now I can call my perl scripts, but for some reason I have lost the ability to create a directory or create a files. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks, Bil...more >>