Re: IIS6 'forgets' "Connect As" password for Virtual Directory

This is IIS6 we are talking about. You shouldn't need to restart IIS a
couple times a week.

Most people don't restart IIS6 for months at a time. Recycling Application
Pool should be the most you need to do, if at all.

For example, changing HTTP.SYS settings sometimes require a restart of IIS
(because it requires restart of HTTP.SYS). But these tend to be global
changes and makes sense to restart.

Changing IIS settings are pretty much dynamic unless you are making global
changes. And if you are making global changes that frequently, I have to ask
"why".

Thus, I think you should start by not restarting IIS a couple of times a
week (in general) or at least identifying WHY you are restarting. No,
"habit" does not count.

http://blogs.msdn.com/david.wang/archive/2006/03/12/Thoughts_on_IIS_Configuration_Changes_and_when_it_takes_effect.aspx

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"Richard Manion" <RichardManion@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Believe it or not, I had searched your blog before posting and I read a
couple of articles on Syncronization. I hit the 'save to disk' button and
got
the 'no changes to save' response. I guess I will have to wait and see if
it
drops the credentials again. The biggest problem with debugging this is
that
we restart IIS a couple of times a week (in general) and the last time the
password persisted for about a month before dropping, which makes this
very
hard to debug.

Thanks for the help, I'll be back if it still happens,
Richard

"David Wang [Msft]" wrote:

http://blogs.msdn.com/david.wang/archive/2005/04/27/IIS_Configuration_Mysteriously_Disappear.aspx

Usually when IIS configuration disappears, it is because:
1. Configuration change was cached in memory, not yet persisted to disk,
and
then someone triggers restart of IIS. Poof goes your changes.
2. Something else running on the server is "synchronizing" values
incorrectly.

IIS worker processes have no permission to change metabase values, WAS
does
not open the metabase, so all IIS6 metabase changes come from some sort
of
user-action.

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IIS
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"Richard Manion" <Richard Manion@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message
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I have a website that contains a virtual directory mapped to a UNC using
a
domain account under "Connect As." Users are normally able to browse
the
virtual directory without incident. The site exist on an NLB cluster.
Occasionally, one or two of the servers will forget the "Connect As"
Password. The server will respond with a Server 500 error indicating
that
authentication failed. When I look at the "Connect As" box the password
field
will be blank, i.e. no ****** as is the normal condition.

Has anyone else seen this? Is anyone able to use a virtual directory in
an
NLB cluster without this problem? Any help would be appriciated.

Thanks,
Richard M.





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