IIS5 & Frontpage - Not authenticating user for editing

[SBN]

I have multiple websites on a 2000 server (IIS5), a website that was set up
this weeked is NOT asking for log in when opened by frontpage. All other
sites ask for user/pass. The properties are the same throughout all sites.
Operater, Server extensions, (authering enabled, manage permissions
manually), integrated windows security...

The file/folder permissions are also set the same. Yesterday I purchased a
couple of IIS5 and frontpage 2003 books and found no clues to why this is
happening. The properties to this site are the exact match to other sites
that all require logging in to access via Frontpage. As such I have to shut
the site down until this is resolved which is a real pain. Any clues would
be a great help. Thanks

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

Your best bet is to look at the actual directory security information and
check and see if the everyone group, or the IUSR account have write access.
Even though things look to be an exact match on the surface, they may not be
in acuality. Sometimes a hard drive flips a bit, and sometimes that happens
on an ACL which describes the access permissions for the file, resulting in
a user or group having different permissions than it seems. Usually a
recalculate hyperlinks or a check and fix server extensions can catch these
and reset them. Sometimes you have to strip away all the accounts except the
admin account (including anonymous access) for a site and start to re-apply
them (of course, after completely backing up the site just in case the
permissions get more messed up).

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage