Not sure this is the right group to post my question. We are using windows 2003+ asp.net. We have a virtual directory with the "Anonymous Access" disabled. We are using "Integrated Windows Authentication" and "Baisc authentication" for this virtual directory. This virtual directory is automati...more >>

Hi everybody My entire system was formatted using NTFS, how is it possible that I cannot see the security tab on the files "properties" sheet? I want to change accees rights Thank you for your help....more >>

Hello everybody how do I grant a user, actually an asp.net web page, writing priviledges on a folder? Thank you....more >>

I monitor my router and ftp logs on Server 2003. As would be expected, port 21 packets show up in both. However, I have an instance where the router shows an incoming and outgoing packet for port 21. However, no entry was made in the ftp log. The router shows Nov 29, 2005 12:25:37.302 UTC ...more >>

We have Siteminder loaded on a Windows 2003 server with IIS6. Part of this software installs files with a .unauth extenstion. When you browse to these files you ger a 404 File Not Found message even though the file is there. Any ideas? Thanks, Keith...more >>

Trying to map an IIS virtual directory to an area on a separate file server. The machine running IIS is running stand-alone (no domain). The file server is in a domain. The virtual directory is mapped using the Connect As structure using a domain account and password known to the file ser...more >>

iis 6 authentication ISSUE------------- Issue- we have a virutal webiste (named WEBSITE) that we only want users of a certain group to be able to access. The AD domain name is ABC.com. The dns name for the website is WEBSITE.XYZ.COM. The host headers are setup as follows- WEBSITE and WE...more >>

I have four web applications under default website in IIS. I want to enforce SSL only on some pages in all these applications ,where i gather user information. How to go about it. this application is available to users on internet. Thanks in Advance ...more >>

Hey everyone, I'm familiar working with Windows 2k Servers. I restrict access to virtual directories or websites either by uncheking the "allow anonymous" or adjusting ACL's on the folder where the website is. Then asign a standard user account to those ACL's. Problem is that since I up...more >>

My question is similar to one issued in this group in the beginning of September "Lsass error - Possible IIS breaking through web request" We suffer from regular crash of Windows 2000 Server due to following error: "The security package Negotiate generated an exception. The package is now d...more >>

I have an IIS6, and a CGI (.exe) web service I want to deploy. I put the .exe in a virtual directory of it's own. I understand I need to give execution rights in this directory, I want to know if there is a way that I can prevent someone from putting another .exe file in the same place and r...more >>

I support an application that supports Integrated Windows Authentication. I am running into a strange problem with my own user account. It appears that Internet Explorer is passing the wrong credentials to the web server, because the application is trying to authenticate me with the wrong user...more >>

IIS6 - Windows 2003 Ent. I have an FTP site with numerous hundreds of directories/contents. I do not want the user to be able to traverse up a folder and see all this content - I just want them to see the content of the link I send them - they would not know the other folders that are in the...more >>

We have a Webserver called webserver1 that we can get to from our main ste without a problem. The problem is when we're at another location and we cannot get to this server. I can't browse to it or ping it from another location. The server is listed corectly in DNS. What would cause us to...more >>

Hi, I work for a consultancy that is offers free hosting to an NPO. they have requested that a part of the website be available only to certain users (around 2000). I'm not sure how to do this as I've never made a website with authentication other than internal websites with authentication base...more >>

Hi, 2 node Windows 2003 NLB Cluster,IIS 6.0 Running in IIS 5.0 Isolation mode. An identical web site on both nodes.Web site does not allow Anonymous access.Used to run fine until recently. Now we get the "Cannot find server or DNS Error" error message. When I configure the web sites to Allow...more >>

I am trying to set up Anonymous access for an nntp virtual server. I created an account for that IUSR_NEWS and added the credentials in the appropriate field. When using another user it works fine (Integrated authentication), but when I choose Anonymous and add the new account, it doesn't w...more >>

Hi All, I've dealt alot with kerberos in the past, and have a good understanding. My dilemma is that I'm trying to get a more complex scenario running, and am after a definitive example from someone who has got this working, just to confirm that I'm heading down the right path.... I hav...more >>

We have a servlet that is served by Tomcat. IIS is employed to redirect ot Tomcat via AJP. IIS is also SSL enabled as our data is sensistive. I am setting IIS to use SSL encryption on the default website. I have a redirector that forwards request to Tomcat I wish to call a jsp in Tomcat an...more >>

Hi, I'm encountering a problem which is quite 'mysterious' to me. Scenario: - Windows XP Pro SP2 with IIS 5.1, acting as both server and client - a virtual directory /tests/secured/ with Directory Security set to "Integrated Windows Authentication" (IWA) (no other options are enabled) I...more >>

Is it possible to buy SSL certicates cheaper from somewhere? I want to use it for multiple sites and don't want the hassle of going through whole of the procedure all over again.Thanks. ...more >>

I currently have 2 web sites on 2 different servers: 1 ssl and 1 non-ssl sites. I am planning to move the ssl site to the non-ssl server which is a Windows 2003, IIS6 box. I figure I would setup the 2 sites using 2 different virtual directories. 1) Do I export and then import the certifica...more >>

Is it safe to use the public IP of a server as a relay in IIS? I'm testing the SMTP server in IIS. A web app on this server needs to be able to send email. The only way I've got it to work so far is by going into Default SMTP Virtual Server Properties > Relay Restrictions > selecting "Only th...more >>

I am working on a shopping cart website and for that I need SSL. The problem is that I don't know how to install SSL. Is it possible to download it from a website or do I need to buy it.If I have to buy it then from where can I buy it from and how much it costs? Any information about SSL will ...more >>

Hello! I have for a long time used the line: Set FS=Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") in my ASP code. Suddenly one day this week it stopped working and I now get the error: Server object error 'ASP 0177 : 800401f3' Server.CreateObject Failed If I add the IUsr_<Compute...more >>

Hi all, I have a strange problem here. I have only two IP's and I need SSL on different web sites so I have configured one web site to use the port 444 for SSL. It's seems to work fine, when I'm on my desktop I connect to the web site using https it works fine, but on another computer when ...more >>

I have changed IIS to point to my default location (C:\inetpub\wwwroot\oursite\), changed the default document to default.aspx (my default doc), allowed HTTP traffic in the XP Firewall settings, allowed anonymous access in IIS. Why can't I get to my site via the IP address (http://209.183.x...more >>

I am trying to set up a secure connection for my SMTP server. However, when I try to send messages, I get the following error message: The certificate's CN name does not match the passed value. How do I create the correct certificate? server name: main.megaheights.net I am using an e-m...more >>

I have created a vitual directory "Financials" on internal web server which is using IWA to access excel spreadsheets. When a user with NTFS full permissions accesses directory all files open. When a user with Read & Execute, List Folder Contents and Read access opens the web folder the fold...more >>

Today is the first time I've tried configuring a few sites with a cert and discovered that its not all that simple, I was under the assumption that its much like standard http on port 80 where it allows you to share the same IP by specifying a host headers with https on port 443 however it is ...more >>

Can someone tell me how to stop logging localhost or particular IP addresses in IIS 5.1? Also, anyway way to block IP addresses with IIS 5.1 short of the Windows Firewall or a hardware firewall? Thx! ...more >>

Hi, I read the post and response about xmlrpc hanging. I do not have that problem but I have seen this message in my IIS 6.0 logs. Since the IP addresses are getting a 404 error, I think I am ok. Since I am new to IIS, I just want to make sure a virus has not infected our webserver. Thanks...more >>

Hi, I am running Windows 2000 server with IIS 5.0 SP4, which is hosting a website which requires digest authentication. Recently the website has stopped working. I have noticed that the "Digest Authentication" box is now greyed out. I am able to browse active directory from the server and hav...more >>

The machine is Win2k3 SP1 with IIS 6.0. Suppose I have a website siteName.companyName.com. Internal clients should be able to access the website as follows: http:/siteName/ External clients should access the website using SSL as follows: https:/siteName.companyName.com I believe I ne...more >>

Can anybody point me to Metabase Explorer and SSL Diagnostics versions that recognize SSL host headers in IIS 6.0? Thank you. ...more >>

We have an ASP.NET application that attempts to access an Excel file located on a remote file server. This always results in a logon error, but if we move the Excel file locally to the IIS server, we are able to access it without a problem. We are running on an IIS 6/Windows 2003 server and...more >>

Hi! Here's a good one for all ya'll IIS experts out there! How is the CRL distributed from the CA to the PKI-clients in IIS? Push? Pull? Combination? Is this possible to configure in your PKI solution? /Magnus - NoopMan ;~) ...more >>

There are a number of users listed in the Permissions List for a Folder on my Web Host (names changed slightly to protect the innocent). Can anyone tell me where these are defined? For instance, what is OWS? Administrator -- RWXDPO SYSTEM -- RWXDPO NETWORK -- RX NETWORK SERVICE -- RX IU...more >>

IIS 5.0 in a domain. IIS has Basic & Integrated selected, NOT anonymous. All users have I.E. browser. All users are members of the same domain. IIS Basic Auth MMC section has the correct domain entered. There is no global.asa file in the directory. All links in the .asp page have been validated ...more >>

Hi All, I am trying to serve content over SSL for multiple sites on a single server machine. I have read a lot about using wildcard certificates for IIS to cover several subdomains like.... sub1.domain.com sub2.domain.com etc my problem is that the 2 websites are not on the same domain n...more >>

Hello everyone! first time posting here. I have a windows 2000 server running iis 5. I am having this weird problem of late (started around 11/7/2005). I noticed in my event viewer under system that I have been getting these timeout messages from a file called xmlrpc.php. Now the weird thing is ...more >>

I'm running Windows Server 2003. My web pages are build using ASP (not ..NET). Some of my pages show a list of Word documents that a viewer can download. Each page shows those documents that the "owner" of the page wants to be available for downloading. Currently, I get the files emailed to m...more >>

Hi, I updated the metabase for the userid and password of both the above account and the web site is running fine. But now I cant seems to find any logon/logoff events of these accounts in the security log although I have set the authenication methods for IIS5.0 to anonymous access. Am ...more >>

Hi We have a server hosting a number of websites accessed via SSL using name1.domain.com and this has been working fine. We now want to create a second series of websites but with different branding but hosted on the same server. The IP is the same but the URL is name2.domain.com. We h...more >>

i'm sorry for the repost, but i thought i should repost this under a correct, supported account this time... --- I've so far failed to find the correct google search or MS site search phrase to coax the answer to this one to the top of a results page so i wonder if i can ask for a bit of gui...more >>

I have Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition (fully updated) with IIS 6.0 installed on an IBM eSeries single Xeon 2.8Ghz System with 1GB RAM and a gigabit NIC. All the hard drives are 15K RPM Ultra 320s. We are moving our website from an old (NT 4.0 w IIS x) to this new system. When SSL is ...more >>

Hiya I'm having troup logging into the SSL site from the no-SSL site. The active server pages work right, but the form does not want to post if the action is the secure site. It will post if the action is the non-scure site. What the heck? ...more >>

I am trying to setup a Windows 2003 workgroup server for Citrix Presentation Server v4.0. I have installed "Certificate Service" and I am wondering how I can request a server certificate and use the same server to authorized the certificate? Thanks Che...more >>

is there a way to deny certain users the ability to use the Virtual Directory Creation Wizard? ...more >>

Hi out there! Are there any known problems with performance when you activate the IIS 6 Metabase Auditing ? Thanks for infos Regards. R....more >>