IIS Access Denied errors

Recently the company web server began prompting for account passwords as
users visited sites (even redirects to external sites). No account passwords
would successfully login. After some research, I decided to reset the
Anonymous Access permissions on the server Web Sites.

That 'appeared' to work, but only for a few minutes. Soon users no longer
received the password prompt dialog. Instead, they were simply met with a
standard 401.1 "Access Denied due to invalid credentials."

I tried resetting the IUSR_<server-name> account (password only though), and
then I reset the anonymous access permissions by 'Browsing' for the user
account and manually typing in the new password.

I restarted IIS and sites and redirects began working again.
But...again...some short time (minutes) later, the 401's began again. At this
point I can restart IIS and restore full site functionality. Unfortunately, I
have to do this every 10 minutes or so to keep site availability alive.

Please...'any'...help will get you on my holiday card list! Thanks.

-Steve

give this a try:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e90fe777-4a21...66-bd22

"Steve Burns" <SteveBurns DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:DBCFC7EE-A1C6-4874-9D27-1D9FDE86EE19@microsoft.com...
> Recently the company web server began prompting for account passwords as
> users visited sites (even redirects to external sites). No account
> passwords
> would successfully login. After some research, I decided to reset the
> Anonymous Access permissions on the server Web Sites.
>
> That 'appeared' to work, but only for a few minutes. Soon users no longer
> received the password prompt dialog. Instead, they were simply met with a
> standard 401.1 "Access Denied due to invalid credentials."
>
> I tried resetting the IUSR_<server-name> account (password only though),
> and
> then I reset the anonymous access permissions by 'Browsing' for the user
> account and manually typing in the new password.
>
> I restarted IIS and sites and redirects began working again.
> But...again...some short time (minutes) later, the 401's began again. At
> this
> point I can restart IIS and restore full site functionality.
> Unfortunately, I
> have to do this every 10 minutes or so to keep site availability alive.
>
> Please...'any'...help will get you on my holiday card list! Thanks.
>
> -Steve
>