problem accessing IIS with firefox

[andre73]

Hi,
I've just setup an IIS on my win2k. I can access pages at localhost/somedirectory/somefile.#*$! just fine with IE. But when I try the same with firefox or NS I get a prompt for username and password. I have not set a password or created a user. How do I solve this problem?

regards ¦ andré

[mattur]

Hi Andre,

It sounds like a permissions problem - it may be that IE is transparently presenting your account credentials so you only get the prompt in non-IE browsers.

You need to check the filesystem security permissions on the wwwroot folder (IUSR_*yourcomputername* is the user account IIS uses to access the filesystem) and check in the IIS mmc "Internet Information Services" under Properties -> Directory Security that "Anonymous Access" is checked.

HTH.