how to download exe file from IIS5.0

Hi,
I am working on a win2000 server with IIS 5.0 installed on it. I have few websites running on it. On one of the website when i try to download the .exe file using URL http://domainname.com/file.exe , it gives me the "page cannot be found" error, though the file is present at that location.

Can anybody tell me what should i do to download the file from the site.
Any suggestion would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance
Rinkesh

I'd say you need to double-check the url

Or, possibly the file has permissions on it so the web server has no access.

Rinkesh

I thought the problem might be URLscan.exe but I installed v2.5; checked the .ini file and ensured that .EXE was not denied; restarted IIS ... and still it doesn't permit me to download a .EXE file! The good news is URLscan works when I tested it for other bad characters! When I tried to download my .EXE file, the log file ignored the action ... but still I got the error 404! Very puzzling!! Any ideas Doug?

I don't know urlscan. My best guess is still permissions. If you're not on a public connection, you can temporarily add the IUSR_computername user as a member of the Administrators group, restart IIS and see if your problem goes away. If it does, that tells you there is a permission problem

Don't forget to remove the IIS user from the Administrators group when you are done testing!

I'm facing the same problem in IIS 5.1 on Windows XP too.
As Microsoft is saying in IIS 6.0 snapin in mmc we can use web service extension to allow permission for exe but in IIS 5.1 I'm unable to see it. If anybody find the solution please inform everybody else.
Thanks

Hey, I am having the same problem as Rinkesh. If I have http://www.mydomain.com.au/support.exe I get "The page cannot be found" error message. If I rename the file so it is http://www.mydomain.com.au/support.exe1 it prompts me to download the file (like it want it to do). So I'm guessing it is some security setting or something blocking the .exe files. Any ideas? I am using Windows 2000 Server with IIS 5

Yay I fixed my problem. I had run the IIS Lockdown tool on our webserver. So I opened the URLScan ini and made a couple changes:

C:\WINNT\system32\inetsrv\urlscan\urlscan.ini

In the section: [AllowExtensions] I added .exe and in the section [DenyExtensions] I removed .exe.

I the restarted IIS and all works fine