David
Wed Nov 29 05:04:28 CST 2006
Are you sure that this user is actually connecting to your
non-functional website? Could she have some funny DNS or Proxy-server
config from RAS or on her machine's Internet Settings that prevents her
from actually connecting to the correct website remotely?
Is the non-functional website configured only for Anonymous
authentication or is some other protocol active? If no other protocol
is enabled, it is useless to create a local account for her because IIS
is not authenticating nor using that local account. The web browser
shows the user login dialog whenever it gets 401s, but if the server is
not configured to authenticate... it's not going to care what the user
types in for username/password.
Otherwise, I suggest you enable logging, even for a short while in
coordination with the specific user, to troubleshoot this. Her 401
should be a big red flag in the log file that LogParser can easily
locate.
//David
http://w3-4u.blogspot.com
http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
//
Mark S. wrote:
> Ken,
>
> Reasonable request, however due to the amount of traffic these sites get IIS
> logging is disabled. I did look in the event logs to look for failed log ins
> and there's nothing recorded.
>
> I had her put the site in her safe list. Cleared her cache and set it to
> check for newer files on each visit. Her security was set to low by her IT
> department. It happens on Firefox as well.
>
> M
>
>
>
> "Ken Schaefer" <kenREMOVE@THISadOpenStatic.com> wrote in message
> news:egccPO2EHHA.3596@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> > Can you post the relevant IIS logfile entries please?
> >
> > It may be that IE is not trying an anonymous logon at all (or something
> > else). The logfile entries would be a good place to start looking to see
> > what's going on.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Cheers
> > Ken
> >
> > "Mark S." <marks@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > news:uIDd7f1EHHA.4404@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have two anonymous websites running on Windows 2003 Server IIS 6 with
> >> all the services packs and patches, both sites in IIS have identical
> >> settings, I've doubled checked.
> >>
> >> Both work as expected for a great number of users except one. This user
> >> works at home so she connects to her corporate network via her RAS client
> >> and then uses IE 6 to go to my sites. One of the sites works as expected,
> >> the other site popups up a login dialog box.
> >>
> >> I've tried everything I can think of but it all fails. Desperate, I
> >> created a user account for her and when she enters the username and
> >> password it still won't let her in.
> >>
> >> Any ideas?
> >>
> >> Thx.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >