Problems Setting up IIS on server - Authentication??

[stephenmbell]

I am looking to setup both a dev server and a production server for our company's intranet - intended to run some asp.net 2.0 applications & possible SQL 2005

I just setup a fresh installation of Windows 2003 server (standard edition), ran all of the windows updates, and installed IIS on it - through the manage your server. I enabled ASP.net but not FP Extensions. Also, this server is a member server on our domain - and a VMWare box.

Just to verify this was working correctly, I created a new site in the IIS Manager with the following settings:

Description: My Website - Development
IP Address: All Unassigned
TCP Port: 80
Host Header: mywebsitedev
Path: c:\website\mywebsite
Allow anonymous access: Checked
Permissions: Read & Run Scripts checked

I have created a simple default.html file, and put it at c:\website\mywebsite\default.html - all the file contains is a H1 tag. I added default.html to the list of default documents.

I added the host header information to the hosts file on both this server and my local machine. When I try to browse to this site from either the server or my local machine, I get prompted for windows credentials.

Under the directory security tab, I have double checked - Anonymous Access is enabled and also the Integrated Windows Authentication check box is checked.

Where do I go from here?

Thanks

sb

 

[chester27]

Have you applied SP1 on this box and then removed it?

Have you installed IIS after SP1 installation?

Check the version of dlls in Inetsrv folder and see it matches with the OS version. For example, if the OS without SP1..w3core.dll version should be 6.0.3790.0. If it shows SP1 version, this could very well related to dll version mismatch which is known issue with IIS. Simply reapply SP1 that should take care of it.

If above does not apply and everything is fine, then check following KB:

896861 You receive error 401.1 when you browse a Web site that uses Integrated Authentication and is hosted on IIS 5.1 or IIS 6

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;896861