How to turn off a username and password prompt on an ASP web site hosted in IIS 6

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Software developer here with very little networking experience looking for info on settings in IIS for hosting ASP.NET web apps...

We're self-hosting a website via an onsite web server (running Windows Server 2003) with IIS 6.0. Anytime someone navigates to our site both externally & internally to the network, a prompt opens asking for a username & password...I've tested in multiple browsers and it does the same in all browsers. I want to turn this off, but don't know how to. We've tried disabling Windows Authentication inside of IIS, but this results in a "You are not authorized to view this page" error.

Any ideas on how I can get around this issue, both internally and externally?

Do you have Anonymous access enabled? It doesn't sound like it. — joeqwerty, Oct 27 '09 at 23:19
yes...Anonymous access is enabled, and Windows Authentication is disabled — Kyle, Oct 27 '09 at 23:51

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 28 '09 at 00:07

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Do the IUSR* account have read access to the actual file-system? Does it work with a static html file/directory listing or anything that doesn't need to execute scripts/asp?

Maybe this applies to your problem?

answered Oct 28 '09 at 00:07

Oskar Duveborn

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How to turn off a username and password prompt on an ASP web site hosted in IIS 6

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