Hi Albert,

Anonymous access should be checked in directory security.
Try out enabling Directory Browsing.
Try out changing Application Protection to LOW or MEDIUM.

Other way round is :
Converting the file in a zip format should resolve all problems. Possibly the IIS is trying to execute it.

Aashish


>Hi,
>
>This is not really "chatter" but need help with a web site that someone else has set up for me. The site works fine (www.hstat.com) for most regular html pages but I have a self-extracting zip file in the root directory that users cannot access because Windows authentication kicsk in whenever they try to access it. The URL is:
>
>hstat.com/hsdemo.exe
>
>I tried shutting off this authentication from within the IIS setup but I still get it (I stopped and restarted IIS after the change FYI). I don't know enough about W2K IIS server setup to fix this myself. The guy who setup the site is no longer available so he cannot help.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>Thanks,
>Albert