I'm working for a professor at my school and I'm trying to salvage a web site someone made using Visual Studio. It runs with IIS and ASP.NET.

I'm having trouble with authentication, and I need an answer. When any user that is not an administrator of the computer the site is hosted on just tries to get to the web site (http://computername/dir), it pops up a Windows authentication dialog (like htaccess in Apache). I want this to go away.

I tried editing the Web.config file in the site directory using examples on the Internet with no luck.

IMHO, Microsoft should stay out of the web site tool development business. Their way is rediculous. It's so much easier with Apache and PHP, JSP, or Perl.

You need to change authentication tag in Web.config
<authentication mode=”None”>
. And you have not to change order of tags in this file. If you change order IIS will not work properly with it.
If it don’t help you show you Web.config content and give a link to your website.

Hey Denys, appreciate the help. I had actually tried that with no luck. I talked to someone at work today about it and they said I needed to make the wwwroot directory be accessible by the ASPNET and IUSR_COMPUTERNAME accounts. It worked.

Cheers!

It is no Microsoft problem. It is problem of system administrator I think :-)