Re: Can't download .exe file.

From: BB (qbernard_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/18/03 

Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 11:27:45 +0800

After you save the urlscan.ini, do you restart
IIS services ?

If yes, and you didn't see anythign in urlscanxxxxxx.log
then this is not cause by urlscan.

Next, what's the error sub code for the 401 request ?
check IIS log file too. 401 related to login and permission
issue, what authentication being used ? do the user has
read access for the .exe file ? 

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"jinqing" <jinqing.news.invalid@web2news.net> wrote in message
news:41121N657@web2news.com...
> New to Advance Server.
> Just installed w2k adv server and  have a problem now,I configure it as
> a IIS,I put some .exe files under wwwroot folder for user
> downloading,but user can't download these .exe files from this server.
> The error is "The page cannot be found",but can
> download any other type file,eg .zip,.pdf ... I read some article from
> web,check the URLScan.ini file and make the .exe
> be allowable,then still doesn't work but notice that Urllogfile didn't
> log .exe reject  transactions any more,so there must
> be another place block the downloading.The new error message is "HTTP
> status code 401 : Unauthorized",web browser displays
> "The page cannot be displayed".
> I installed service package 3,latest hotfix,IIS lockdown tools,Microsoft
> Baseline Security Analyizer.
> Appreciate for any suggestion.
> Jinqing
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