First, before you do anything. Install every patch for IIS! Just to add to what others have said, in Win2k at least, by default all files and directories have "Everyone" with Full Control, so the IUSR_MachineName user should already have full access to your web root by proxy...
Make sure that in IIS, Allow Anonymous Connections is enabled under Directory Security, and that the anonymous user name is actually IUSR. On your web root folder (c:\inetpub\wwwroot\), go to properties, security, and uncheck Allow Inheritable Permissions, and click Copy. Remove the user Everyone, and add Administrators, and IUSR. Then go to advanced, and check Reset Permissions...Then click OK, Apply. That should do it. -- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tuesday, December 10, 2002, 5:06:13 PM, you wrote: NB> First and foremost -- I am a self proclaimed illiterate (in totality) NB> regarding Network admin, security\permissions, etc. knowledge. NB> I recently installed CF 5.0 on a new computer system running Windows XP Pro. NB> Anonymous access to the web server is not working when trying to access for NB> example http://127.0.0.1/index.html. I.e., I can't get around the NB> requirement for a User Name and Password NB> Access using the dir\filename, as below, works. NB> http://localhost/index.html and c:\inetpub\wwwroot\index.html NB> All of the documentation that came with CF 5.0 and that I can find on the NB> Macromedia.com Web site addresses Win 95, 98, NT and 2000. Some of the NB> directories, file names, etc. described for those OS's don't appear to have NB> different names or are in different locations in XP Pro NB> Any help would be appreciated? NB> Thanks, NB> Nick NB> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting.
