"Mr. T." <me@myself.net> wrote in message
news:2qvsvtF14nai9U1@uni-berlin.de...
> 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 newly created user with read and execute access. So
> far so good, it worked for months. Now, from one day on another they can't
> login anymore. Strange enough, their "master" account, i.e. the account
> they
> use for ftp-upload of the complete site, is still allowed access.
>
> So i thought it was something with that user. I first removed his rights
> on
> that page and put them back, but that didn't help. I then completely
> deleted
> that user and re-created it, but that didn't help either. Then i created a
> completely new user, with a completely different name, and gave him the
> rights on that page. No access.
>
> Then i made a testpage on my own website, gave those two new users
> permission on it and removed the anonymous user, but i could't get access.
> Then i thought: let's try that "master" account on my testpage, and when i
> added it to the security settings for the page, and tried to open the
> page,
> it wouldn't work either.
>
> So i'm kind of stuck with the fact that the pages that are already secured
> still remain, but that i can't add new users to them.
>
> The only thing that changed a.f.a.i. know are the updates that i installed
> through Windows Update. Could there be a problem with that? i.e. that one
> of
> the updates changed a setting?
>
> Any ideas?

> Windows Update should not have affected this. Specifically what error is
> there when a user is denied access?