401 not authorized

hey, i am trying to set up my website but nobody can acess my website because it keeps asking for a username/password. how can people get it? thanks. i am using iis 6

EDIT AGAIN: no, the other thread didnt fix this am problem. plz help

any help? anonymous access is on, and the pw for IUSR_server seems fine.

i just changed the anonymous user to SERVERNAME/ADMINISTRATOR and it worked. but now everybody has admin access? not good.

IIS prompts for a username when the anonymous IIS user account doesn't have permission to some file or folder required to render the page.

This could be any file in your web, any image or script files, sometimes the windows temp folder and or the registry.

You need to identify what element is causing the prompt for the password.

Hi,

Try resetting password for IUSR account in User Manager and in IIS manager on website>directory security>edit.

Set that password in IIS metabase using following command.From command prompt go to cd\inetpub\adminscripts and then set the password for IUSR.

cscript.exe adsutil.vbs set w3svc/anonymoususerpass "password"

then restart IIS and try browsing again.

OR

You could download a tool called as Filemon from www.sysinternals.com and then run that tool and browse the page. See if you could find any access denied error.

HTH.
Ganesh Anekar.