I have authentication mode set to forms in my asp.net web.config but am still getting a windows login prompt when i browse to the website.
Could authentication mode be set elsewhere, in IIS for example? My site runs on IIS 6.
Thanks.
This could be because the permissions on the folder that is being served is not allowed to be accessed by the user running the web site
I have had issues where the authentication was set to forms and the directory security was set to allow anonymous, but some resources (images in my particular case) did not have the proper permissions to allow the anonymous user to read them.
The effect is that the user was prompted to login so that the graphics could be displayed, after which the form was displayed and the user logged in (again) with the intended form.
Sounds like windows permissions problem.
Windows permissions will always override anything that you have set up in aspnet.
I would start by looking at "anonymous access" permissions in IIS admin, then work your way through the file system.
You have configured anonymous access in IIS Administrator, but the IIS user does not have permission to access the filesystem, defaulting to the login dialog to authenticate as Windows user.
As it happens a colleague updated my machine to .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 whilst I was away. So I compiled my project and released onto the server which does not have SP1 installed and the above happened.
I've installed SP1 on the server and it's working fine now.
Thanks for all your input.
Just to clarify : the login popped up because the application was unable to load a file due to the problem described in the following: Link
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I am trying to deploy an asp.net 4 app to a new microsoft server 2008 R2
I have set up the application as I have done dozens of times before and set the folder permissions appropriately.
I have tried setting the application pool name directly to have write permissions
I have tried setting IUSR, IIS_IUSRS, NETWORK SERVICE and Users.
I have confirmed that windows authentication is disabled and anonymous is enabled as well as forms authentication is enabled. Logging in works fine i can access all pages normally except if i try to write to the folder. Then a password is required box pops up which looks like windows authentication (even though its disabled)
Every post here states and in my past experience says if I set the folder permissions for the defaultidentity application pool it should work, but for some reason this server wont let me do it!
Any help would be most appreciated.
Welp this turns out to be a really weird one. For some reason when SQL reporting services is installed it reserves the folder name "Reports" in any IIS Web application folder regardless of whether your actually using Reporting services. Its not created by default or anything, but if you happen to create folder titled "Reports" dont expect to access anything from it. After many hours of frustration it turns out it's a random reservation which doesn't throw any error just somehow overrides your authentication protocol to use windows authentication for their reserved folder.
Thanks Microsoft!
My "Hello World" c#.Net application works fine on my local Windows 7. Moving to our server I get 401.2 error.
Here what I have done (following advices in some forums):
Changed the Anonymous authentication use to application pull user
Created a new application pull
Created a new Windows user with access to application folders
Set the authentication of the application pull to that user
Set the application pull for my application to that application pull
Please note that:
I receive the error both from within the server and outside
I receive this error from all the browser I tested: Chrome, IE 9.0 and Firefox
An html file in the same folder is visible
What am I missing?
Thanks,
Asaf
You don't need to create a new windows user. I know you've said what steps you've done, but I'm going to highlight what I do each time I add a new site.
Set the Identity of the Application Pool to
ApplicationPoolIdentity.
In the website, set Anonymous Authentication to Enabled. Click
Edit on the right and set the Authentication Credentials to
Application pool identity.
In the website, again, choose Basic Settings on the right. Click
the Connect As.. button and make sure Application User is
selected.
Give the appropriate access to the folder on your hard drive(s); i.e
Application Pool name = hello.com, the user is IIS
AppPool\hello.com.
I think your issue is that you haven't given the folder permissions for the Application Pool User. I think you've incorrectly given them to an unneccessary Windows account.
HTH
Do you have the correct version of .NET installed on Server? Also you need to register ASP.NET in IIS - c:\windows\Microsoft.NET\framework\v2.0.50727 (or v4.0....)
aspnet_regiis.exe -i
and after restart IIS with iisreset in command line
We have IIS 7 running on the Windows 2008 Server which hosts many intranet websites. We want to use windows authentication for the website and its url will be http://pay
So, I add the C:\InetPub\pay folder and bind it to the IIS7.
Disable the Anonymous Authentication mode.
Enable the Windows Authentication mode.
When I access the website http://pay from the other computer, I got the message that
Unauthorized You do not have permission to view this directory or page
using the credentials that you supplied.
So, I go to the Windows Explorer and Add the Local\IUSR account and give access to the folder. But I still got the same error.
Finally, I added Everyone account and give access to the folder. This time, it works and windows authentication is also working well.
What I am afraid is that, does it open the read access to Everyone to the \MyServer\C$\Inetpub\pay folder? It contains the web.config which contains server and users credential and it would be the big security breach.
How can I achieve to use Windows Authentication without giving access to Everyone account?
Thanks in advance.
I believe what you you're looking for is the IIS_IUSRS group which you should give read access to your website folders when using Windows Authentication. The IUSR account you tried would be used in an Anonymous Authentication scenario.
More info on these groups in IIS7 here:
Understanding Built-In User and Group Accounts in IIS 7
Newly installed IIS on a clean windows Server 2008 R2. Installed all security option. Then for the default web site authentication, enabled windows authentication and disabled all others. Then when access the default page iisstart.htm, it should give me a popup for authentication message.
but when I access the test page like: http://localhost/iisstart.htm, there is no popup. same as enabled Anonymous Authentication.
How to fix it?
I think your webservice is accessing files via your app pool identity, remove this user from the security access list on the file.
If you go to "localhost", then IE will see this as part of the "Intranet Zone". In the "Intranet Zone", IE will by default automatically send your current credentials to sites that use "Windows Authentication".
The result is that everything is probably working correctly.
First of all make sure you check if the app pool user can access the files of the website (NTFS security settings). See: IIS7 Permissions Overview - ApplicationPoolIdentity
After that (and double checking that only Windows Authentication is enabled in IIS) take into account that your URL must not contain dots! You can make an extra binding (see: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731692(v=ws.10).aspx) that contains only letters and numbers and then add that binding to your local hosts file (open a text editor as administrator and then edit the file hosts in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc) to check.
This application is using windows integrated authentication in IIS. No anonymous login.
It's also using an application pool defined to log on with a domain user.
If a try to browse any page, it pops up the username and password dialog box and even though I entered a valid user (including the domain administrator) it doesn't log on into the app. I keep getting the username/password dialog. If I logon locally (in the IIS box), it works OK.
Also, if I change the application pool to use Network Services, it works OK.
The domain user is already a member of the local IIS_WPG group in the IIS box.
Am I missing something here?
If you use a domain account for the Application Pool you have to run a series of scripts on the domain controller. So, apparently it's not recommended to use a domain account, rather a local server account. Microsoft has this issue documented on a case:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/871179
I suspect the NTFS file persmissions on the .aspx files don't allow the users you are logging in as the needed access to read/execute them. What are the file permissions on the files you are trying to view? What do your authorization and authentication elements in web.config look like?
This sounds like it's related to the privilges assigned to the domain user. i.e. whether they, or indeed the server, are permitted to impersonate the user that is logging in. Or, something regarding "Trusted for delegation" in the server's settings in AD. Either way, you'll probably get a better response on serverfault =)
Try entering the same user of the appPool as the anonymous user (Web Site Security tab)
I had the same user/pwd Popup problem in Svr 2003.
I solved it by CHECKING ANONYMOUS ACCESS in directory security of DEFAULT WEB SITE.
It promps you if you want to also affect your sites you click OK.
That did it.