localhost login

[Shelah Horvitz]

I've just upgraded my machine from XP Home to XP Pro and
now I can't access http://localhost:8080 because it asks
for a login. I don't know what to use for
username/password; the .NET username/password specified
in the Owner account I'm using doesn't work. I'd really
like to just do away with the login because this is just
me at home, practicing some technologies I need to learn,
and the security enforcement is just in my way.

How do I configure the machine so I don't need to log in
to get to localhost, and if I can't do that, how can I
configure the login?

Thanks,

Shelah

 

[Roger Abell]

This is really a question for an inetserver newsgroup.
You need to become familiar with IIS if that is the
webserver you are using.

Within IIS, in the properties of the website or web
there is a directory security tab, within which you
can set the site or web to allow anonymous access.
Beyond this, the NTFS permissions on the content
must allow the accounts IIS uses for anonymous
access and for the Asp.Net use of the runtime. (These
accounts also need the correct user rights and group
memberships, but the .Net Framework install and
IIS install should have taken care of this part for you.)
IUSR_ and ASPNET, at a minimum, need read on the
content (that was not read execute), and IWAM_ may
also if you are using ASP out-or-process (high isolation).
ASPNET (at least once, it may be fixed now) needs at
least list on all parent folders of the content up to and
including the partition root.