RE: Temporarily loses IIS Authenticated User

From: Brian Hesseling (BrianHesseling_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/11/05 

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:17:07 -0800

We are seeing the exact same problem. Las night we enabled Integrated
Authentication on our web server. Today users will get it fine but every so
often the get anonymous denied.

"Muirboy" wrote:

> Hi
>
> So here's my situation. I've got IIS v5.0.2195 running on the same box
> as my SQL Server which hosts ASP and ASP.NET applications
>
> For authentication, i have 'allow anonymous' unchecked and 'Integrated
> Windows Authentication' checked. I'm also placing users into a domain
> group which subsequently gives them access to my ASP or ASP.NET
> application
>
> This all works fine to a point, but here comes the problem. Every now
> and again it seems like IIS is losing the credentials of the user that
> is logging in and ends up displaying the lovely (Login failed for user
> 'NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON') message.
>
> When you refresh the page everything is back to normal until an hour
> or two later the same happens again.
>
> Has anyone else seen this temporary loss of credentials before and if
> you have, please oh please let me know if you managed to fix it?
>
> Yours Despairingly
> Muirboy
>

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