IUSR and IWAM new / synched passwords does not work!?

Hi,

We just installed IIS on the company I work for. Since the IUSR password is
not synced with the website at default (for some retarded reason), we had to
change the IUSR password ... after this the website worked perfectly fine

However, a moment after the IWAM user password was also changed by misstake
- and since it is not possible to enter the password anywere in the ISS
console we had to sync the "meta database" manually.

We used the /inetpub/AdminScripts for this.

The syntax we used:
cscript adsutil.vbs set w3svc/anonymoususerpass "f00"
cscript adsutil.vbs get w3svc/anonymoususerpass (reports correct password)

cscript adsutil.vbs set w3svc/wamuserpass "f00"
cscript adsutil.vbs get w3svc/wamuserpass (reports correct password)

To sync the passwords with IIS we used:
cscript.exe synciwam.vbs -v

After this we restarted the IIS service through IIS console All Task ->
restart IIS.

But we still cannot access the website anymore and get this stupid message:

"
You are not authorized to view this page
You do not have permission to view this directory or page using the
credentials that you supplied.
------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------

Please try the following:

Contact the Web site administrator if you believe you should be able to view
this directory or page.
Click the Refresh button to try again with different credentials.
HTTP Error 401.1 - Unauthorized: Access is denied due to invalid credentials.
Internet Information Services (IIS)
"



I have no idea what to do if the sync didnt work (since the vbs scripts
reported success).

Anyone know what do next?



P.S. We just left Apache and installed IIS and am very puzzled by the amount
of administrative crap IIS features. I just dont understand how the webserver
settings of apache that fits snuggly into a small configuration file can
become a tiresome console of such enormous proportions in IIS???! We never
had any problems at all with Apache...

RE: IUSR and IWAM new / synched passwords does not work!?

Btw, of course we set the passwords of these users to "f00" in AD as well.

Re: IUSR and IWAM new / synched passwords does not work!?

Why are you setting these properties in Active Directory? There are local
accounts, not domain accounts.

Or did you install IIS on a Domain Controller?

Cheers
Ken

"Job Andersson" wrote in message
news:4FBFEE26-3C06-4713-81DE-10EC20A76421@microsoft.com...
> Btw, of course we set the passwords of these users to "f00" in AD as well.

Re: IUSR and IWAM new / synched passwords does not work!?

I did not create the accounts. IIS did. Whatever the server runs on DC or a
local standalone server has no impact on the problem I have.

This issue is still a problem for me, any ideas are appreciated.



"Ken Schaefer" wrote:

> Why are you setting these properties in Active Directory? There are local
> accounts, not domain accounts.
>
> Or did you install IIS on a Domain Controller?
>
> Cheers
> Ken
>
> "Job Andersson" wrote in message
> news:4FBFEE26-3C06-4713-81DE-10EC20A76421@microsoft.com...
> > Btw, of course we set the passwords of these users to "f00" in AD as well.
>
>

Re: IUSR and IWAM new / synched passwords does not work!?

Apparently I had set some permissions wrong.

To be able to view these websites I had to add read/list permissions for the
users AUTHENTICATE, NETWORK and INTERACTIVE.

What are these users, and what do they do?