Anonymous access required for .NET web services?

From: rgilmore (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/26/04 

Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 05:41:06 -0800

Hi,

We have a .NET server application running under IIS. A C#.NET client running on a workstation communicates with the server using .NET web services ( .asmx). Some customers have found that if they disable anonymous access to IIS, the client can no longer communicate with the server. And some customers are not willing to leave anonymous access enabled, because of security concerns.

I am relatively new to IIS, I have an apache background. I want to know if there is anything we can do to work around this problem without changing our server/client code, such as asking the customer to create a user on the client and server machine and somehow using that account to access IIS? Not sure how that would be done.

If we are required to change our code to make this work, what do we need to do?

thanks
Robb