Importing csv file using vs.net 2.0. I keep getting errors when I try and access a file using the odbc text driver. If I set the virtual directory to run under an admin account i can access the file. If I set the vd to run under the iuser account I get the following error. Microsoft OLE ...more >>

We have an issue on a Win2k3 Virtual Server sitting on a VMWARE box with Integrated Authentication. When Integrated Auth is turned on, sometime (not always!) large files get a time-out message when you try to download them. In fact, it even happens with some smaller files (but inconsistent...more >>

HI Guys When i try to login to my FTP (IIS6.0) server from the user that i have created in the local server it is not taking me by default into the ftp directory that i have created from the same name as the user that i try to login. With IE6 i used to login to the users home directories f...more >>

Hi Have tried to enable SSL on a SBS2003 but when I require SSL the website stops to respond. Have installed CA services Have created Certificate request Have "downloaded" the pending request Have appended the certificate to the default website But when I put a checkmark in Require Sec...more >>

I'm vaguely aware that for security reasons, you shouldn't set write permissions to your root web directory. However, I have a ASP-based CMS that is designed to write html files and folders to the root directory. What are the risks? Thanks, Iain ...more >>

Hello all, After spending a few hours searching the web, I post this message to this newsgroup just in case what seems to me an strange behaviour could be due to IIS. I'm trying to access a web service hosted in an IIS site configured to accept both "Integrated Windows authentication" ...more >>

I hope someone can give me a had. Someone in my maitenece group has changed the password to this IUSR Account. This account is used for anonomus access. How can a restor this account to it's original state, just as a quick fix I created a new account and I am entering the password manually ...more >>

We have a copy of the original CSR. We have the Cert from Verisign. We have a PXF file for this. But the associated password is lost. The cert was imported into the current IIS6 site and that horrible default of the key not being exportable has left us with a bit of a problem. We need to...more >>

Hello all... I'm writing you because I want to configure an SSL site. I already added the certificate (filename.cer) to IIS (6.0 on Win2003) but I want to know how to assign certain folders to the https site. (for example: The "regular" site is at C:\IPub\Wroot\MySite; I want the files in t...more >>

We are trying to setup a demo of our software on the internet and would like to avoid having a user login. Our application normally relies on Integrated Auth to determine the current user as much of the interface is determined based on who the user is and what rights they have. Our demo site...more >>

Hi, I have to modify an existing .net windows application that directly edits the IIS6 metabase. (I don't have the option of deciding to use ADSI/WMI in a Script because it's an existing application). It's been working fine for a long time up to now on our test servers and our customers...more >>

Hi, I am getting error while using SMTP Relay, the error is 550 5.7.1 Unable to relay for prasadagv@gmail.com. We have Windows 2003 OS used to host our web site (a small business site developed in asp.net). We are using 'SMTP Virtual Server' and 'POP3 Service' components of Windows 20...more >>

I have a wesite running that can be access both from internet or intranet. There are two directory's in the website, now I want to limited acces to one of the directory's to people in my intranet. How can I do this? Thanks for any response, R.Demandt...more >>

I am setting up an intranet site. I am using Frontpage and have the page published to an internal server. On the hard disk I have set NTFS permissions to the folders where I have certain pages and info. When denied users access the link to the folder the page is in, they are given a log o...more >>

An application has been purchased that requires the IUSR_ and IWAM_ accounts be placed in the local administrators group in order for the application to work. Could you please detail the security risks?...more >>

I have a few questions about web sharing. 1. When you enable web sharing of a folder, what port does the user need to access the shared folder remotely? 2. If I set the security up in IIS for that folder, will it change the local intranet security for the local users? 3. In the web sharin...more >>

While researching authentication on IIS I saw there were 3 options for authenication: Basic, Digest and Integrated Authentication. My requirements are that this works both on the Intranet and Internet. I would also prefer that the user enter only his short username and password (eg bsmith...more >>

Hi, i have iis 5.1 on windows xp sp2. I created several asp.net applications for our intranet, using the windows integrated authentifiaction method, because those applications are only for internal users. Now recently, i made an application which is accessible by any anonymous user. I c...more >>

We have a custom ISAPI for authentication and authorization running on 2003 server. Basic Authentication is setup. A custom 401 has been setup on the site. When we attempt to access the site we are prompted for username/password. If we choose to CANCEL at this point the 401 is shown up to 2,...more >>

Hi I've setup an IIS 6 server (on Win2K3 server) to do 2-way SSL using cert-based authentication with smart cards. On the IIS web site, I have these settings: * Anonymous access - disabled * Integrated Windows authentication -- enabled * Require client certs - enabled * Client certific...more >>

Hi, I have IIS 6 on windows 2003sp1 with urlscan 2.5 running a cgi application. I want to have certain characters to be removed from the whole url including cgi parameters. Unfortunately the urlscan only checks till the '?' parameter which says that the cgi parameters are following. Unfort...more >>

Hi, i have a web application make in .NET 1.1 SP1 and sometime the customers telle me that this error occurred : <body bgcolor="white"> <span><H1>Server Error in '/MyApp' Application.<hr width=100% size=1 color=silver></H1> <h2> <i>Server Too Bus...more >>

Hi, I have configured a website within IIS6 on Windows Server 2003 but am having issues with IIS Integrated Windows Authentication. Each time I try and access a test page in the root of the website I am being prompted for the username, password and domain. After 3 unsuccessful tries I am p...more >>

Hello, I spend last few days trying to setup excel services to connect to SQL Server Analysis Services on different machine using Kerberos without any luck, so I would really appreaciate any help I could get here. Few questions I have are: I have IIS on machine MyMachine1 but I created web...more >>

Hi, I have 2 websites on a IIS machine. one of them is open to the public and another one should be only accessable from inside the network (LAN). What has to be done in order to secure it, so peolpe from outside wont be able to see the Intranet website. Thanks a lot for any comment. Rob...more >>

Is it possible to force a w3wp process to always run under a specific non-admin account when users are authenticated by different means? What I have is two virtual directories: one with Windows authentication, supporting a minimal set of internal Windows accounts, and one using Anonymous authe...more >>

Hello, I have a website set up on a WIndows 2003 Server, IIS6. I have one (anonymous) user browsing to our website and getting prompted for a username and password and then getting the http 401.1 error. This isn't happening with anyone else that I know of....the website has been accessed...more >>

I have a server that has an internal domain and has an internet domain, which do not match. right now in order to get people to login i have to do Internaldomain\user as the username otherwise it assume ExternalDomain\users how do i get it to assume the internal domain? the website secu...more >>

We are running an IIS 5.1 on a Windows 2000 Server using Integrated Windows Authentication to connect to our ASP.NET intranet application. All users are able to connect without having to enter their login name and password. Only users running IE on a Windows XP platform (both with and without...more >>

Hello, I have a problem on an application I am developing: This C# Windows Application calls a C# Web Service, which it uses the SourceSafeTypeLib DLL to interact with Visual Source Safe 6. The problem comes out when I call the VSS method "Get(ref string Local, int flags)", which should g...more >>

Hi, i already gave nearly all the information in the topic, so I'll make it short: I want to restrict access to an FTP site by IP address, but I can't, the configuration buttons are greyed out. It looks like this (in German): http://berker.campus.ecp.fr/directory-security.jpg I also can'...more >>

Stand alone Windows 2003 Server Standard W IIS6. I have a website that works great using anonymous authentication. I would like to lock it down so a user has to enter a local user account, username and PW. If I uncheck Anonymous Authentication and give the local user rights to the folde...more >>

It's a known fact that over 93.7% of computers that are over 30 days old are infected with spyware and adware. Such software is rarely accompanied by an uninstall utility and even when it is it almost always leaves broken Windows Registry errors behind it. Even if you bought a spyware remover to...more >>

On a new Windows SBS 2003 we have created the website in IIS. If we try to access the website externally we get the following error: HTTP Error 403.6 - Forbidden: IP address of the client has been rejected. Internet Information Services (IIS) If we try to access the website fron inside the n...more >>

I am a lead .Net developer on a large government web application running on IIS 6.0/Win 2003 Server. We are using basic authentication over SSL authenticating against an active directory. There is a new mandate that we implement a password change function that allows users with expired pas...more >>

The hosting server is running Win2003 , my code is reading from a registered DLL file on the same server : The following is where the code stop... 30 Dim TransVal, varPaymentID, varPaymentPage, varErrorMsg, varRawResponse 31 32 TransVal = MyObj.PerformTransaction 33 varRawResponse = MyO...more >>

Good day! I'm an Apache user for the most part and am trying to setup an IIS server on the same system (using port 8000 to resolve obvious conflicts) for cross-server testing since one of my prod servers is an IIS server. I've had Apache/PHP/MySQL setup for about a year now on my local sys...more >>

Hello i've a great problem with IIS (5 or 6). I have all my website in a Subfolder of C. If I Place on a WebSite (casual) an ASP tools to browsing directory, I can "navigate" the other site and all the server's disk structure (Windows directory included). My Web work with IIS Users.(IUSR) ...more >>

I can no longer edit my web pages by opening my website in a browser on my laptop or any remote computer, logging on to my web server (2003 Standard OS) and edit using FrontPage. By opening FrontPage, I would be asked for my server's username and password. I can still edit my webpage, bu...more >>