Hello. I'm looking for some help on deciphering IIS Metabase Event messages 4500 thru 4512. I was hoping to get some detailed definitions for each of these. The info I got from the Microsoft site is very generalized. We are trying to find out what event triggers these messages so we can know who ...more >>

Hi, some haker has hakered my site in my windows 2003 std with IIS. The haker has copy 5 pages in each folder of my IIS sites. The files are: default.htm default.html index.asp index.html index.php I've a hardware firewall that's protects my server (SonicWALL PRO with IPS) Only the port ...more >>

Hello IIS gurus, Never mind the reason, but I need to configure a virtual directory with anonymous access enabled (it's accesed by both domain users and non-domain users in an intranet), but the users that do belong to the domain must access the site with their domain account, instead of "...more >>

Hello, We have many servers with IIS 6 (windows 2003) installed. THere is another department that manage the IIS. In the past, they have been added to the local administrators group, but we do not want to grant them this permissions. Is there any way to delegate permissions or grant IIS adm...more >>

I am trying to limit access to only a few computers. Win 2003 IIS 6 I followed Article 166003 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/166003 Example: (Class C Address with custom subnet mask) Network ID: 200.200.200.128 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.192 IP Addresses Effected: 200.200.20...more >>

I would've thought that someone from the FrontPage Client or FrontPage Server Extens forum would be able to answer this because of the tight relationship between the technologies but apparantly not. Can someone in this forum address this? BTW I tried the adjust the NTFS permissions of the anon...more >>

Please see the Security Log event below. It appears that I get a similar entry in the Security log periodically. This example involves C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\protocol Sometimes it involves other files as well. Namely c:\windows\system32\msdart.dll, C:\WINDOWS\system32\msjetoledb4...more >>

Not sure if its the right place..but need help cracking this...Just inherited a bad place........ Users access a certain share point site and browse a directory for a host of folders.This afternoon one of the folders was deleted which has loads of subfolders(as it is a sharepoint server).....more >>

I have a web project that is running this code: (generalized for security) refWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\computer_name") colcomputers = refWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * From Win32_OperatingSystem") For Each refComputer In colcomputers If refComputer.reboo...more >>

Hello, After reading a lot of articles, I was finally able to get Kerberos and NTLM both working for an internal server. I'm not sure if this is supposed to work this way, but it seems that on every request to a page, it'll throw a 401, and then the next request authorize the same page. ...more >>

I have a test intranet site set up. I have IIS set for Integrated Security. IIS server is in a domain. and only domain PCs will access the intranet. the URL is http:\\Intranet. I have NTFS settings on the folders for the site. I have several folders that only specific users/groups who ...more >>

I have 4 Web servers that should all be set up the same; once they are all working we plan to load-balance them. Due to limitations in our in-house application, the Web services are running in IIS 5.0 isolation mode. The Web site on all four servers is configured to use the local IUSR account...more >>

If I use a web browser other than IE to connect to our intranet I get prompted for a user name and password. I understand if I type in "http://website" in IE I will not get prompted to log in and if I type in "http://website.domain.com" I will get prompted. Unfortunately, if I use Firefox ...more >>

I am designing an intranet site. All content is unprotected - anybody on the intranet should be able to see everything. There is a requirement to provide silent authentication against corporate Active Directory whenever possible; in other words, when a user navigates to the home page, we want to...more >>

So after some serious "fun" trying to get Kerberos to work for me I think I have determined that my configuration is going to require NTLM. Here's the situation. We have a load balanced server farm backed by 3 different servers, say A, B, and C. Each of these servers is configured via host ...more >>

Hi, Just running a local example on my windows XP pro SP2 box, I have a virtual directory that I turn off anonymous access for. I want people to use their domain accounts. As per an article I just read online, if I refer to the site as http://localhost/site then it works, as in, it detects ...more >>

Is there a way to configure the server so that certain users can remote desktop or use a custom MMC with the IIS snap in to launch the IIS Manager, see the configuratiion settings but not make changes to any settings? I have some web developers that I'm not keen on give admin rights to :) ...more >>

Is there a way to let IE clients auto logon when connected to an Active Directory network and get prompted to logon when connected over the Internet to the same site with SSL? If so what are the settings needed on the IIS side and IE side? I get the IE error page that the site cannot be found ...more >>

I was asked to take a look at an IIS Website running on Windows 2000 Server because of reports of slowness. The site is for a small research group that is part of the University I work for, and there typically aren't a lot of clients connected at one time, so the server should be able to hand...more >>

Hi, When posting to HTTPS (action=https://domain.com/processForm.aspx) from an HTTP page on another site (http://myOtherDomain.net/ mypage.html) is the post data secure (encrypted)? Thanks, Ethan ...more >>

Hi, I have read in the IIS help, that informations of IIS are both situated in the IIS metabase and in the Windows registry. That's why I think, that restoring the whole metabase after a server-crash wouldn't be enough to have a working IIS-configuration with all website- and ftp-site conf...more >>

Hi. I am using IIS 6.0 and Server 2003. I want to know what is the best way to provide a secure login. I tried to go to the Directory Security tab and create HTTPS access on the signin folder (containing all login pages) but now can't access the folder at all (I typed https in the browser)....more >>

I have IIS 6 running on a Win2k3 server. A virtual directory has been created under the default Web Site at "C:\Reports" As an Administrator I have no problem running the reports. A non Administrator either gets prompted for a domain user id and password or simply "access denied" The vir...more >>

I am unable to use the GetFolder method of the FileSystem object when trying to get the folders from within a Virtual Directory. Here is my setup... I have a Development Box (DB) and a WebServer (WS) and a separate file server (FS). On FS, I have a share with permission for Everyone set to Re...more >>

I have an IIS 6 server on our DMZ. I also have a developer that requires his application to authenticate users into Active directory this will provide the access to a back end SQL server. If this was purely an Intranet site I would have only a little hesitation in allowing all the ports requir...more >>