I have an ASP.NET Web Application deployed under a Web Site in IIS 6.0. I want to set the log file locatin to some folder, say C:\Logs\MyApp through scripts? How can I do this? I am using IISWeb.VBS script to create the Web Site. TIA Sachin ...more >>

Hello I am using ASP.NET v1.1, IIS 5.0, URL Scan (URL Scann DLL Version 6.0.3615.0). I use server side variable in .aspx pages as follows: Say in '/VirDir/SubDir/Login.aspx' page - I have the following image: <img src="<%=mapPath%>/img/icons/logo.gif"> - Where mapPath is the server var...more >>

Hello, An IIS 6.0 server setup on a Windows Server 2003 Domain Controller is no longer successfully authenticating clients. The server is set to authenticate clients using Advanced Digest Authentication, and has been working flawlessly for the past few months. However, now whenever a client...more >>

I am trying to set up 2 way ssl with iis 6. I install the server cert, turn on ssl and click "require a client certificate." Well, when I hit a web site on the server from a browser, the server pushes it's cert to the client, but does not ask the client to send one. The "Choose a digital ce...more >>

I have a question about IIS securty. If you disable anonymous access and choose only integrated windows authentication, should you be prompted for a username and password when accessing that site from a domain computer running IIS? Or should IIS pass the credentials of the currently logged on ...more >>

Hello, I am quite new to IIS and I could use some assistance. I am running IIS on Windows 2003 Server (Enterprise). Here is what I would like to accomplish: 1. A single public IP address and point to different web servers. 2. Encryption / security (I know point one does not support SSL) ...more >>

Hi there! I am testing Smartcard-Authentication with our Webapplication on IIS 5.0 and IIS 6.0 and found the following different behaviour: with IIS 5.0 the Smartcard PIN is asked several times on each Page, while with IIS 6.0 the PIN is asked only once. IIS 6.0 seems to cache the PIN or ra...more >>

We have an IIS Webserver running on Windows 2000 as part of our domain. Its netbios/dns name is webserver nad I can connect through a browser to this address and authenticate using Kerberos OK. However I have set up an dns alias intranet.theforwardgroup.com to point to this server but it fails t...more >>

Hi, We are currently switching from NTLM to kerberos on a large portal installation which uses the IIS for SSO purposes. This is a clustered solution so we've set a domain users as the owner of the IIS app pool and configured the SPN so it can issue tickets on the cluster address. We've verif...more >>

I have an XP Pro client with a user logging on who is in the Domain Admins group. There is only one DC, server01 in tailspintoys.com. The DC is also a certificate server and Exchange server for coursework. When I try to get a certificate at http://server01/certsrv my authentication fails using...more >>

We have Windows 2003 server running IIS 6.0. Have an application that creates ASPX session variables based on values found in ASP session cookie. Works great if anyonymous is allowed. Once Basic or Digest Auth is required, we get 401 errors. We've even included a default user account ...more >>

Hello, I need to change the admin password on our IIS server. When I change the password my website goes down. When I put it back to its orginal password everything comes back online. Any ideas why this happens??? -- Ever Learning Net Admin...more >>

Does anyone have suggestions on best practices for security, and optimization for IIS 6.0...more >>

Have recently migrated my server from W2K to a W2K3 platform, and everything is functional on my site but I have one minor issue that I would like some help with. I'm running a W2K AD domain with my W2K3 server as a member server. Client computers are either WinXP or W2K Systems, fully pat...more >>

I upgraded from server 2000 to standard 2003. I can get all of my Intranet to work with exception to web forms. The users are asked to submit a user name and password to complete. In the past they have never been asked to do this. Also the only user name and password the site will take is ...more >>

Hello, After changing usernames on our Active Directoy network, old credentials are still being passed to our asp.net pages. A server reboot fixes the issue but, as you can imagine, this is unacceptable. Any help would be great. Thanks...more >>

Hi, I'm running IIS 5.0. I have a virtual directory that resides on another server. The folder that the virtual directory connects to has Share permissions of Everyone "Change" and NTFS perms of 4 groups: Admins- Full Control Group1- Modify Group2- Deny (Full Control) ConnectAsSVCAC...more >>

Hi -- We have two servers in our office running Active Directory. One is a Windows / Exchange 2003 server and the other is a Windows 2000 box. My client PCs are all running XP Pro, SP2 and log in to the domain controller. I have set up our corporate intranet on the Windows 2000 machine. I ...more >>

Hi all We have a terrible situation now. We have 3 new web servers (IIS6.0) in the same domain, each hosting a different web site, e.g. http://companyintranet, http://hrapp and http://payrollweb . In the LAN environment, the users have not problem logging into the different sites silently...more >>

We have 2 NLB 2003 SP1 webservers, and we have a site that SSL works fine on one of the NLB servers (the one the CSR originated from), but does not work on the other. In order to get a certificate for a site, we make the CSR on one of the servers. When we get back the cert it is installed t...more >>

Hi, I create two FTP sites on the IIS 5.0. And first FTP site port 21, and second FTP site port 4999. And also i create 3 virtual directory in the second FTP site. We use ADSL internet connection. I open these ports from ADSL modem to reach these FTP sites from WAN. First FTP site which use...more >>

Hello All, I have a small ASP.Net Web application with a single aspx page. Following code is written in page load of the Webform1.aspx private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e) { // Put user code to initialize the page here Response.Write("Logged user is " + User.I...more >>

I was not sure where to post this question. This discussion group seemed most appropriate. If any one things otherwise can they please redirect me to the right discussion group? Here qoes the question anyway... I have built an ASP.net application that uses the singleton pattern to keep o...more >>

I'm a UNIX guy, and had a windows 2003 web edition server dropped in my lap. It's going surprisingly well, with the exception of a log issue. The machine is a shared hosting environment, under IIS6, and I can't seem to find a way to allow customers to view their http logs. I am logging in th...more >>

I am running windows 2003 enterprise edition sp1 with IIS 6.0 and Oracle client 9.2.0.1.0 When I run an application that connects to a web service located on this machine I receive intermittent failures. CPU usage will spike to 100% and the web service will not return control to the client...more >>

My Background: Linux / Netware / Unix O/S: Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 SP1 Configuration: * Single NIC * 3rd party firewall in front of it with port forwarding. Classic DMZ setup. * firewall is forwarding ports 25/80/443/444 to server * ran "connect to internet" wizard and set it ...more >>

I'm looking for an article that would explain the request processing that goes on in IIS 6.0. For example, when a request is received, it starts a new process by running w3wp.exe and it is started with the identity specified in the Application Pool settings. But then if you request a file, t...more >>

I had to change the anon account a web site used, now i want to change it back to iuser_machinename but i dont know the password. The searches i've done showed i can tell the password using the metabase, and i got the metabase explorer but cant find users in there. i have found wehre you ca...more >>

I am currently about to launch an ecommerce solution for my company an was wonder about securing the administration section. Currently th plans are to have the administration site in a virtual server usin windows authentication and restricted to local ips only. While lookin at all the documen...more >>

Hi, I had to change the password to the IUSR account and I thought I got everything updated, but I'm still getting logon errors in my security log. The web sites seem to function OK, but these errors bother me. Any idea where I can look to see what is really creating the error and where...more >>

We are developing web pages in ASP classic on an IIS5 server. We are having an issue on our Production server that we are not seeing on our Development server. Here is the code first of all: <%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%> <% 'we created a DLL that will allow us to impersonate an a...more >>

I have a client that for various reasons can only have one IP address, however they need to seperate SSL enabled web sites. I followed the Technet Article at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/596b9108-b1a7-494d-885d-f8941b07554c.mspx. The wilcard cer...more >>

hi I am planning on building a Windows 2003 Web Server and placing into a DMZ, with CISCO PIX on each side. I have found only a few documents that describe how to configure the Windows Server without using ISA. Has anyone got any tips or suggestions for this sort of scenario? We don't h...more >>

Ok. Lets say I am running website called dev.mysoftware.com. In IIS, I have home directory set to C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\dev.mysoftware.com When I open the site, I get the error: ================================================== Server Error in '/' Application -----------------------------------...more >>

After I installed the latest Microsoft security patches on my Windows XP Pro (dated 10/11/05), I'm no longer able to access IIS console. When I open IIS console, my server is no longer exists, and when I try to connect to it it says I don't have permissions to it, although I'm logged in as admin...more >>

> "Pritchie" <info2005@remove-this-including-dot.bigbunker.com> wrote in > message news:dpO4f.3413$sm1.224@newsfe5-win.ntli.net... > > Hi, > > I want to restrict IUSER access to the server file system. I removed it > > from the "Users" group and added it to the "Guest" group. Thinking that > ...more >>

Windows 2003 Server, SP1, IIS6 Primary Web Server. Special Dashboard Intranet application requires: 1. OfficeAutomationuser to be created. 2. Dcomcnfg - requires user to be added to Word Document application to Default Access Permissions and Default Launch permissions. DComcnfg - to Conf...more >>

I have an application running on IIS on box A. Within IIS I am using a folder which is a shared folder on other machine B. Again the authentication is Windows only for this and all the authentication is thru Domain users. My problem is if I try to access files on Machine B thru Internet Explo...more >>

Hi, I am trying to deploy set of Web Services on IIS 6.0 / Windows Server 2003. I have two websites running on IIS. one listening at default 80 & the other at port #: 8181. When i try to access some of the web services from Web Site listen at 8181 i get the following error. I am tryin...more >>

Hello. I work for a university and we're looking at disaster recovery for our WWW server in the event of a catastrophic event. The main thing is having the ability to give instructions to parents; phone number, email addresses, other info. The one option that has come up is having a remote ...more >>

Installed service pack 1. * Internal users can see web site. * External users on same T1 can see website. * All other external users.. can not. > Websites do work. > The I/P resolve... but the page never renders. > If you go in from external processing.. everything works just. > EVERTYHING wa...more >>

limiting access to files with asp.net is there any way i can make a file only accessible to certain users of my website? my files are to large to copy to a temp directory and they are of many types, .exe .xsl .xml etc. i want an href to each file but only allow users who have the right login-i...more >>

None of the CGI apps (Perl and ASP) on my site can perform system commands (dir, del, copy, etc.) for most users. I am running IIS 6.0 on Windows Server 2003. I have an app pool set up for the virtual directories that need this functionality. The identity for that pool is local system. Eac...more >>

I have two machines with 2k3, I one I setup Stand-alone CA and in the other one WEB page, I am requesting web cert. from CA , and then I am installing it, and then from another Comp. running XP I am trying to request Client cert. where I install this cert, and I go and map this cert on IIS to lo...more >>

Hi there, A question that probably has been here a thousand times. I'm running IIS 6.0 and will be using it for development of dynamic content on Professional 64-bit. I read: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/tools/urlscan.mspx but am still not sure if I should use it. Basically can a...more >>

Running an active/passive cluster with a shared drive cluster resource S that holds the web sites pages. When Server 1 is serving pages IUSer_Server1 runs the site When The cluster rolls and Server 2 is serving the pages IUSER_Server2 is used. THe trouble is that the ACLS on the Shared S D...more >>

I currently use a self-signed cert on my 2003 server w/ exchange for OWA and RPC over HTTP. Works great! ... now my client has wireless phones that cannot use the self-signed cert. Is there a way to request a cert from a "real" CA without having to remove the current one (which will bre...more >>

Every now and then I receive a 518 (URL authorization store cannot be opened) error. All ACL's are correct on the AzPolicy.xml file. Based on a MS TechCenter article, I ran the File Monitor utility and it reports a "Sharing Violation" on the AxPolicy.xml file each time I receive this error. ...more >>

I have a script written in ASP/VBScript running on Windows 2003/IIS6. The Script uses CDO to send an email message. When I use the Default Application pool, using "Network Service" as the Identity, CDO works great. However, when I change the application pool to one that uses a configurable i...more >>

RE: Windows 2003 Server SP1 / IIS 6.0 I can successfully run two a perl script files from my default website but I can not run the same files from another website. I have verified that the permissions for the wwwroot and cgi-bin sub folders in both the ‘Default’ and ‘mywebsite’ are...more >>