>Hi Everyone,
>I have a client with a webserver running Win2000 Server. He has a WestWind Web Connect program which works perfectly until a user tries to download a file. Then they get a Windows security window. He can't figure out how to set security (and what user to set it for) so that downloads are available to all people using the site.
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>We have no problems on WinNT Server setups, just the Win2000
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>Any suggestions?
The odds are that the user is running in the context of IUSR_
MachineName, and that account (which is used by anonymous Internet connections) doesn't have adequate privileges. Make sure that this account has read rights in the download directory; you'll need to probably grant permissions to this account in the domain, not just in the local server.
I presume this is IIS5; is the domain operating in mixed mode supporting both NT and Win2K Servers, or is it a pure Active Directory environment? You might try enabling auditing, so that you have a log entry detailing exactly caused Windows authentication to fail for the user when the download fails.