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asp mail on windows 2000

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by yungthrilla43

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the problem that i am having is that anytime i submit a email from the website i have, it prompts for username and password. however when i send the email from the webserver itself it sends. it is obviouse that it wants to authenticate the browser for sending mail but this was not the case with cdonts.dll i thought at first it was jsut having a problem posting to the server but i found out that was not the case. if anyone out there knows anything about asp mail with win 2k or has heard of this please let me know.
thanx
chris

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by yungthrilla43

i was able to figure this one out on my own do i get the points (smile) anyhow this was the deal:
in windows 2000 i added the internet guest account to the list of website operators and it worked. at first i had overshot this by adding the guest account to the admin group which is down-right stupid. but for troubleshooting purposes it helped me track the issue down to it being that the guest account had to be in the list of operators. this way the browser has rights to the site but not admin rights to the server

by dbowlin

Adding the guest account to the list of website operators is definitely not a security best practice. Refer to Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 260985 for the proper permissions required to use CDONTS.

Good luck,

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