IIS6 Anonymous Access problem

Question

I'm having a problem with configuring IIS6 for anonymous access. I've followed most of the suggestions in google search results however, whatever I seem to try results in the site prompting for a username and password.

This is what I've done:

• created a new website in IIS6 using the wizard
• enter the site name "TestSite1"
• leave the IP address unassigned
• set the directory to D:\inetpub\wwwroot\TestSite1
• tick allow anonymous access
• click finish
• changed the permissions for the folder TEstSite1 to allow full access to everyone (temporarily to try and resolve)

WHen I browse to the site from IE or Firefox I'm prompted for a username/password - even though anonymous access is supposedly enabled. What is going wrong?

Answer 1

Couple of things to try:

• Ensure Integrated Windows Authentication is ticked
• Ensure that the folder has given permissions to Authenticated Users and the anonymous IIS user (which I think is IUSR_machine)
• If it's an ASP.Net site ensure ASPNET (machine account) user also has access