I'm a college student and I've got my computer hosted by my university so that I can set up generally viewable websites and all that. Since I'm moving around a lot, I've set up RDC, but there are some times when it would be really handy to be able to access a specific file on one of three or fou...more >>

I am looking for a way, perhaps with ISAPI filters, in IIS6 to block someone from sharing files / "porn" pic's under their website. I have users with their www.domainname.com and they are hosting pics and files under their account. There isn't one link of the website at all pointing to these...more >>

Hi I want to install a web certificate for a site configured on IIS 4.0 This server is the last Nt4 in the network, all others servers are on Windows 2000 or 2003. My enterprise CA is on a Windows 200 server. Do I have to create it in the Key Manager on IIS 4.0 and export it to the CA ...more >>

We have an ASP.NET application running on Windows Server 2003, using IIS 6.0, and integrated windows authentication with SQL Server 2000 on the back-end. We store active directory user names in the SQL Server database for use in mapping application user accounts to active directory user accou...more >>

I need to put a 2003 Web Edition server on a DMZ, but it has to be accessible by both internal LAN users from multiple world-wide subnets and by Employees on the outside. I configured it on the internal LAN, then moved it to the DMZ, but I did not put any user groups into it, and now I cann...more >>

I am trying to access the HelloWorld method compiled in one project using a consuming C# code-behind method compiled in a separate project. Both run on localhost. The test drivers provided in Visual Studio .NET 2003 can invoke the method. When I attempt to add a web reference in the consu...more >>

Someone is trying to hack our server via SMTPSVC. When I view the event log (system) I see Event ID 100 SMTPSVC and a login attempt. However, when I try to match the Event log time with the SMTPSVC log time nothing matches. I want to block the IP Address of this potential intruder. How do I fi...more >>

I have an anonymous access web service that is running as IUSR_machineName. This application is set up in IIS 6 running in an application pool under the network service account. I understand that this network service account is low privledged. My question is: What do I have to do to change t...more >>

We have a site that has a "sample request " form where future customers can order sample of some of our paper. Well, apparenty some people found it and posted it on sites such as freesamplesite.com and fatwallet.com. So we have hundreds of orders for samples!! Is there any way we can blo...more >>

Hi, needed some assistance or affirmation. I am in the process of installing a SSL Certificate for our web server and deleted the original pending requested that matches a certificate that was obtained from the CA. Is there a way of getting that back into IIS from the original saved request...more >>

I want https to be the only option on my webserver. How do I disable http/80?...more >>

Ok here is the situation we have recently upgraded our 2000 server to 2003. We have several Virtual directories that authenticate anonymously, everything was working fine on the 2000 server. Now we experience errors when loading asp pages pointing to either mdb or sql, unless I perform the wor...more >>

Hello, folks. I have setup literally dozens of IIS6 Web sites and just ran into subject problem. I read the following from Mr. Wang in a German IT forum: "401.1 means that the username/password that you gave to IIS for authentication was incorrect. If this happens when you have Anonymous a...more >>

I’m trying to write a script for IIS 5.1 (hosted in XP embedded). I need the script to change the root of the ftp service to “c:\directoryname”, enable both read and write access and lastly allow only a sinlge user access to the site. The user is one built into the OS, so I also want the...more >>

I am seeing that many websites are using AES-256 bit certificates. Is there a way to generate these using Windows 2000 Certificate Server? If it is not offered in 2000, is it available in 2003 Server?...more >>

Hello, I started a new ASP.NET Web Service project in VS .NET 2003 on a remote web server and the only way I could get it to work was by installing the Front Page Server Extensions on the server. I feel very uncomfortable, however, because of the insecure nature of the extensions, in the past...more >>

Hello, I`d appreciate help with the following scenario: I have a Sharepoint installation, obviously on top of IIS. We generated several sites via Sharepoint, that are accessible as third level domains: home.ourdomain.com project1.ourdomain.com, project2.ourdomain.com etc. They are all ho...more >>

I have a number of pre-existing local groups on my Win2k3 box and I want to use them for authentication via IIS. The problem is, I can't add those groups to a site because IIS wants to create it's own local group and therefore won't allow nesting of MY existing group. How can I get IIS to NOT c...more >>