IUSER_ password

[Oliver Jon Irlam]

The other day I made the apparent error of actually changing the password
on the IUSER_ account for www, ftp, and gopher services on IIS.
Now the event log is filled with the message: " The server was unable to
logon the WindowsNT account 'IUSER_ " due to the following error:
Logon failure: user name or bad password. The data is error code."

I made the password change in IIS Manager. There was no IUSER_ account on
the server prior to that. Is there any way to build an IUSER account that
will allow the services to logon. All attempts to create a local IUSER_
account haven't met with any success.

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[Monfort]

You probably try to find your IUSR user in the list of users in the domain.
But if tour server is not the domaine controller, IIS creates this account
as a machine's user.

1/ open the users manager
2/ in the file menu, ask for changing the domain.
3/ the window shows all the accessibles domains. Type the name of your
machine (the name after IUSR_ ).
4/click OK. The list of the users of your server is shown. The account must
be there.
5/select the IUSR account, and type the same password as choosen in the IIS
manager.
6/IIS must works fine.

PS : sorry for my approximative english: I'm french !

Oliver Jon Irlam <oli...@netsteps.com> a écrit dans l'article
<01bc870b$8f1d8dc0$c8fefe0a@weenie1>...

> The other day I made the apparent error of actually changing the password
> on the IUSER_ account for www, ftp, and gopher services on IIS.
> Now the event log is filled with the message: " The server was unable to
> logon the WindowsNT account 'IUSER_ " due to the following error:
> Logon failure: user name or bad password. The data is error code."
>
> I made the password change in IIS Manager. There was no IUSER_ account
on
> the server prior to that. Is there any way to build an IUSER account
that
> will allow the services to logon. All attempts to create a local IUSER_
> account haven't met with any success.
>
>

Alain Monfort
Versailles
<sy...@pasha.win.net>

[Mattias Pavall]

Oliver,

You need to make sure that the account you specify in Internet Service
Manager actually exists first, in User Manager, with the same password. You
also need to grant this account the 'Log on Locally' user right.

Regards,

Mattias Pavall, MCSE
Microsoft UK

Oliver Jon Irlam <oli...@netsteps.com> wrote in article

<01bc870b$8f1d8dc0$c8fefe0a@weenie1>...
> The other day I made the apparent error of actually changing the password
> on the IUSER_ account for www, ftp, and gopher services on IIS.
> Now the event log is filled with the message: " The server was unable to
> logon the WindowsNT account 'IUSER_ " due to the following error:
> Logon failure: user name or bad password. The data is error code."
>
> I made the password change in IIS Manager. There was no IUSER_ account
on
> the server prior to that. Is there any way to build an IUSER account
that
> will allow the services to logon. All attempts to create a local IUSER_
> account haven't met with any success.
>
>