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by hbartlet

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I have installed Frontpage Extensions on my IIS4 web server (hosted on a Windows NT4 SP6a member server).

I was hoping to use Web Folders as a means for my LAN users to access their "home" directory from home (through their ISP), through my web site, without having to learn the intracacies of ftp.

This is a high school so my home directories are grouped by year of graduation (eg \users\2002\student1). I created a virtual directory on IIS for each group (eg. 2002) and set the Frontpage Extensions administrator to the "administrators" group.

When I try to access a Web Folder from home (eg. http://mywebsite.edu/2002/student1) the only authentication which is successful is domain\administrator. If I try domain\student1 authentication fails.

The same setup on my ftp site allows successful authentication of domain\student1 through an ftp client.

NTFS is used to enforce security on the data.

Any suggestions on how to make Web Folders work the way I want? Am I trying to use Web Folders in a manner not supported?

TIA... -Henry

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by curacao_dejavu

The student doesn't have the logon locally right.

It's found at usermanager for domain, policies.

regards,

Leopold

by curacao_dejavu

You can find more info at www.iis.com

http://www.iisfaq.com/Articles/328/

excerpt: (the whole artickle is to long to post)

Configuring the Anonymous Access Account on IIS
Answer

By enabling and then properly configuring your Web server's anonymous access account, you can grant users access to your public Web and FTP content. When a user attempts to connect to a public Web or FTP site, your Web server assigns the user a Windows NT anonymous, or guest, user account. Typically, this guest account has security restrictions, imposed by your Windows NT Files System (NTFS) permissions, that designate the level of access and the type of content available to public users.

Leopold

by hbartlet

Maybe I wasn't clear enough. The folders I want to give Web Folder access to are private, not public.

I want student1 to be the only one able to access http://mywebsite.edu/2002/student1 through domain authentication; student2 to be the only oneto access http://mywebsite.edu/2002/student2 through domain authentication; etc.

I have already accomplished this through my ftp site but Web Folders is a much easier (from the user's perpective) way to access their private data over the internet.

Anonymous access gives anyone and everyone access to all data. Also, I'm trying to avoid assigning the users local access to the server, preferring domain access so they don't have another password to remember and I don't have another 700 userids to manage.

Can this be done?

TIA... -Henry

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