Username/Password problems with IIS 5.1

Hi, I hope someone can help me. I have DNS pointing to my local machine as "home.coleman.cc", and when I try to
open the site using the new Expressions Web (frontpage) I get a prompt for a username/password. I NEVER SET
ONE!! I have tried using the windows user/pass but to no avail. It keeps coming up "home.coleman.cc/user" and
the password section blank. Nothing seems to work. How do I get rid of this, or set one that will work? I HAVE
finally managed to be able to open site using http://localhost, but that will not help me if I need to edit site
from a remote machine.

I am running IIS 5.1 on a WindowsXP SP2 machine.


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RE: Username/Password problems with IIS 5.1

"Dr. Demented" wrote:

> Hi, I hope someone can help me. I have DNS pointing to my local machine as "home.coleman.cc", and when I try to
> open the site using the new Expressions Web (frontpage) I get a prompt for a username/password. I NEVER SET
> ONE!! I have tried using the windows user/pass but to no avail. It keeps coming up "home.coleman.cc/user" and
> the password section blank. Nothing seems to work. How do I get rid of this, or set one that will work? I HAVE
> finally managed to be able to open site using http://localhost, but that will not help me if I need to edit site
> from a remote machine.
>
> I am running IIS 5.1 on a WindowsXP SP2 machine.
>
>

Did you try entering the username and password that you would use to log on
to your machine?

It sounds likely that the anonymous user account IUSR_ doesn't
have access the folders containing your website. When you use localhost your
current credentails silently used when an initial anonymous access fails.

Y ou should not be able to edit your site remotely using anonymous access.

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Anthony Jones - MVP ASP/ASP.NET

RE: Username/Password problems with IIS 5.1

Yes, I have tried using the user/pass for my machine, but it gets me nowhere... I have tried to add my windows
account as an fp extensions administrator - no go... Not too sure what an Iuser account is... I don't want to
be able to access site anonymously, but can't figure out how to get a useable user/pass set or what the current
one is...

Any ideas or suggestions?

TIA


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