Re: IIS6 prompting for username and password

From: Tom Kaminski [MVP] ((A_at_T))
Date: 01/12/05 

Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:20:55 -0500

"Kevin Wheeler" <kevin.l.wheeler@lmco.com> wrote in message
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> Kevin
> "Tom Kaminski [MVP]" <tomk (A@T) mvps (D.O.T) org> wrote in message
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> > "Kevin Wheeler" <kevin.l.wheeler@lmco.com> wrote in message
> > news:O3nlwQL#EHA.2568@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > > How do I stop IIS6 from prompting for username and password? I have
> > > "enable anonymous access" selected.
> >
> > Make sure IUSR_servername has NTFS permissions to your content.
>
> It has read permission on the wwwroot directory.

Hmmm ... check your IIS log to see what is getting logged.

It could be that the password specified in the IIS MMC for IUSR does not
match the password set for the account in user manager. Are there any
relevant messages in the System event log?