IIS 6 security settings

[Moebius01]

I've come across a strange problem building out Win 2003 servers for use as a web farm. I have 5 servers, all configured (I thought) the same. All have the same build of my asp.net web site on them.

However, while all 5 servers work fine from a client running XP, only #5 works normal from Win 2k or lower clients. 1 thru 4 all return a HTTP 500 error. In some cases they provide a chap password challenge which leads me to believe it's something in the user or ownership permissions, but for the life of me I can't find it. I've tried a stare & compare of the IIS settings, and User accounts, etc. and all seem normal. Which leads me to 2 questions.

First, is there any way to export IIS and Policy settings from one machine to another? Ghost seems to have trouble cloning servers (and says it's not supported), but I was hoping for some way to at least copy all the policy and settings.

Second, can anyone think of a place to look for a setting that would cause the 500 error? Looking at the log file, I get this:

2004-07-27 14:58:03 10.174.4.84 GET / - 80 - 10.174.12.9 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.0;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322) 500 0 2148074242

A search on that error code produced no results.

 

[zaznet]

500 is an "Internal Server Error". It's pretty generic, but sounds like you know it is a permissions issue.

Check the local permissions on the folder where the root for the website is created, seems like the most obvious place for a permission to be wrong.

Are you using the same user account on both the XP and 2K machines?

Be sure the W2K machine is in the domain with no problems. Try mapping a drive to the servers from the W2K computer.

Nathan aka: zaz (zaznet)
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