Re: Windows Server 2003 Datacanter Edition

[Dave]

you use the iis control panel and allow anonymous access or whatever type of
authentication you want to use, and make sure you have port 80 open in any
firewall you have, and make sure you have an ip address that gets routed to
from where ever you want users to access it from. if you are making it open
to the internet you probably want to do a lot of reading about how to lock
down and protect your server from all the bad guys out there who are busy
looking for unprotected servers.

"Patrick Whittle" <patrick...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> We will be developing web pages that will be hosted on Windows Server
> 2003,
> Datacanter Edition. Having beginner/intermediate experience on the server
> side (mainly work in development) I cannot find how one grants general
> read
> access to IIS running on this server.
>
> c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\iisstart.htm
>
> How do I give access to people on different IP segments, in order to make
> my
> web-pages public and readable anywhere?
>
>
>

[Dave]

that means that either you have not enabled anonymous access or the
anonymous account doesn't have access to the files. make sure that the
folder and pages has at least read access for the anonymous internet
account.

"Patrick Whittle" <patrick...@hotmail.com> wrote in message

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> All that I keep getting is a user/password dialog window. See attached.
> "Dave" <no...@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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[ondrejbohaciak]

IIS creates two accounts. The one that's used for anonymous access is
IUSR_ComputerName. More here >>
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/3648346f-e4f5-474b-86c7-5a86e85fa1ff.mspx
On the other hand, if you have not already paid for the license of Win2003
Datacenter I must advise you not to do so if you're only going to host web
site on that machine. Datacenter might be the "top" edition if you look at
price but it doesn't mean it's the best solution for web hosting. If you
compare Win 2003 features among different versions, you''ll see that Web
Edition might be better for your needs. It's the cheapest version, designed
to host web sites and nothing/not much more. Another thing you should know is
that you'll probably need to set persmissions for System/ASPNET account if
you're programming in ASP.NET. The mini server in Visual Studio takes care of
all this stuff for you but the situation on production machine running IIS is
different. You should really get some good handbook ;)