PF asks password (all of a sudden)

[Sinan [XP-Pro]]

I was working to publish my site to localhost. All of a sudden, I don't
remember what I did wrong, FP starts to ask user name and password for any
connection to the localhost (inetpub/wwwroot). There is only one user on
this comp and it is me. So I have no apssword at all. How do I stop asking
this?

Thanks,

Sinan

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

It's actually not FP that's asking, but Windows itself. When FP asks IIS to
connect, it then checks you agains the NTFS permissions for the folders. It
could be a security update that may have changed some of the security
descriptors on the files/directories or some other random error. What often
works for me when something odd happens is to go into the IIS Management
console (through Control Panel | Administrative Tools), find the root for
the web site, right-click on it, select New | Server Extensions
Administrator then enter the name of the account I use when I login. I then
right-click again, select All Tasks > Check Server Extensions to go through
and fix errors. Sometimes it works best when running a recalculate web right
before the check server extensions.

Hope this helps
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage

 

[Sinan [XP-Pro]]

Mark,

Before doing what you suggest, I'd better tell that I already uninstalled
and re-installed IIS. But it didn't help. It still requires a User &
Password whenever I attempt to connect http://localhost/ Where should this
be hidden?

Sinan