Hi Aashish,

Turns out that I had to turn off allowing executables to be run in the directory - you were right that IIS was trying to execute the file instead of asking the user whether they wanted to save it or not.

Thanks!
Albert

>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