network password when I pull up my site

I'm running IIS with Win 2000 Prof. on machine A with it pulling all the files off of a 100Gig slave drive on machine B (Win XP Prof). Now everytime I go to my site it asks me for a network password. Is there anyway to get rid of this?

You have to set the site permissions in IIS. Check allow annonymous connections to make the site locally public.

Where exactly is that at? Is this it? Cause this is already checked.

The Windows 2000 will be using an account called ISUR_computername to view the files. However, the IUSR_computername account won't have permissions to view the files on the other Windows XP computer because it's a different computer. Either you need to set the ISUR_computername password manually on the 2000 computer, then create a duplicate with the correct permissions on the XP computer, or I think there might be a way to tell IIS on 2000 to use a different network account to access the files from the XP computer.

I had to read that a couple of times. If I did option A, I would have to continue entering a name and password except I would have a set password, right?

I suppose it's possible the password prompt has nothing to do with the 2nd computer, so in answer "maybe yes, maybe no"

The password prompt is sent by IIS when any component of a web page doesn't allow the IUSR_computername access. This can be an image, a script or css file, or any of the chunks that makes up your web page.

Okay, Thank you guys so much, it works like a charm thanks to option A. I just hadnt had much time to experiment with it but I have two more questions now.

Question 1 - On the XP Machine I had to create a user, problem is that I had only one user so that if I restarted it only started up that user and I didnt have to go through a 'pick a user' screen. Is there a way that I can pick a default user to always have that one log on? I'm never going to have IUSR_Computername log on with the xp machine.

Question 2 - I can access my site like so http://mysite.com:1880 because I have the port set to forward to the 2000 machine in my network. How do I access a different directory? I tried this http://mysite.com/directory:1880 and I've tried http://mysite.com/directory/index.html:1880 and niether work, am I doing something wrong?

Click Start, Run and type "control userpasswords2" (without the quotes). From there, untick "Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer" and click OK. Then enter in the details of the account you want to autologon.



You want http://mysite.com:1880/directory

that's awesome, Thanks a lot. I didnt know XP had that feature too.