How to Use Personalization Server w/ Anonymous Authentication| Article ID | : | 177505 | | Last Review | : | June 22, 2005 | | Revision | : | 4.1 |
This article was previously published under Q177505 We strongly recommend that all users upgrade to Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) version 6.0 running on Microsoft Windows Server 2003. IIS 6.0 significantly increases Web infrastructure security. For more information about IIS security-related topics, visit the following Microsoft Web site: SUMMARY
This article describes how to configure Microsoft Personalization Server
to work on Internet Information Server version 4.0 using Anonymous
authentication. Anonymous logins are common when accessing the Web. Web
administrators will want to enable anonymous login capabilities when their
Web sites are being accessed by Internet users.
MORE INFORMATION| 1. | In the Microsoft Management Console, select Default Web Site, and then
click Properties on the context menu.
| | 2. | Click the Directory Security tab, and then click the Edit button for
Anonymous Access and Authentication Control.
| | 3. | Click the Edit button on the Authentication Methods tab. This will
bring up the Anonymous User Account dialog box, which contains the
Enable Automatic Password Synchronization checkbox and an Edit box to
change the password.
| | 4. | Add a password, then close Anonymous User Account dialog box and enter
the same password for the account in the Windows NT User Manager for
Domains.
| | 5. | If the files are stored on a different computer than the Web server, do
one of the following:
| 1. | Enable the guest account on the file server | | 2. | Create an account on the file server with the same name and password
as the anonymous account used by the Web server.
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In either case, you must make sure that the account has access to the
share on which the propdb files are stored. |
APPLIES TO| • | Microsoft Site Server 2.0 Standard Edition | | • | Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0 |
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