Getting error "Security settings for this service require 'Anonymous' Authentication..." on one server while working on another

Question

I know this error has been discussed many a times but I couldn't find any answers relevant to me so am trying again.

Basically, I have a WCF service, which I have deployed to on one of our servers and it works fine with Windows Authentication. However, when I move the same server to a different server, I get the following error

"Security settings for this service require 'Anonymous' Authentication but it is not enabled for the IIS application that hosts this service"

I have checked the bindings and they seem to be configured fine. They are as below

    <bindings>
        <basicHttpBinding>
            <binding name="basicHttpBindingConfig">
                <security mode="TransportCredentialOnly">
                    <transport clientCredentialType="Windows"/>
                </security>
            </binding>
        </basicHttpBinding>
    </bindings>

I have also compared the machine.config and applicationHost.config files on the two servers and they seem similar.

Any pointers / help would be really appreciated.

Regards,

Hamid

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 01 '13 at 15:24

Got the resolved by doing a repair of .Net 4.5 on the server.

As a background, I had to remove certain features from the IIS server and had to run aspnet_regiis -i on top of it to re-register ASP.Net.

I was getting the above mentioned error. Re-installing .Net Framework 4.5 fixed it.

Getting error "Security settings for this service require 'Anonymous' Authentication..." on one server while working on another

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