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by debbie.lyon

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Every morning our intranet web site asks for logon details although we have not set it to do this. The IIS guest logon account should logon to the site automatically. If we restart the machine the site stops requesting a logon. Looking at the event logs the computer tells us that the iis guest account does not have permission to log on, however this also stops after restart. The guests local group and the account is enabled. The registry shows the FTP service allows guset logon so why is this happening?

Any help would be appreciated.

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by micky martins

The guest local group or account must be disabled. When you install iis its adds two user accounts IUSER_COMPUTERNAME and IWAM_COMPUTERNAME. They both make the anonymous access user.
To make sure they can access the site go to:
IIS CONSOLE -> IIS SERVERNAME -> SITE NAME ->right click PROPERTIES ->DIRECTORY SECURITY -> EDIT -> every thing should be blank apart from ANONYMOUSE ACCESS-> BROWSE->select IUSR_COMPUTERNAME account from users->leave password blank and click IIS TO CONTROL PASSWORD.
If you site can be access from the Internet and you do not want it to be access edit the DIRECTORY SECURITY->IP ADDRESS AND DOMAIN NAME RESTRITIONS->DENY ACCESS->EXCEPT->NETWORK AND SUBNET OR IP RANGE.

by debbie.lyon

Thanks for this, all of the above is in place except that the Guest account is still disabled. The two IIS accounts are not disbled nor is the Guest group. Do you think that I should enable the Guest account? I'd rather not.

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