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IIS 5 question please

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spooky617

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I am trying to figure something out, I am very new to IIS ( I am running Windows 2000 Advanced Server ), I have set up a website with a subdirectory called "mark" ( I do not have the domain name registered, I am using the IP address at the moment for my friends to get to the site until I learn more about IIS )this directory has a directory called PDFs, now when they simply type http://192.168.1.1/mark/ they get to the default page with out any problems (sample IP address) but when I create a link to any PDF file under PDFs directory & anyone tries to access it they are prompted for user name, password & domain. I have gone through the directories & made sure that the security has IUSR_XXX is there & made sure that Web Sharing even is on for this directory. Why would it be asking anyone for user name & password & domain? Do I have anything set up incorrectly?
Thank you for your help.

 
Using your example you can access the /mark/ directory correctly because the IUSER_XXX account has read privilages to it, however I'm trying to load one of your PDFS at /mark/files/mypdf.pdf and do not have privilages to that file.

What are your permissions set to on that PDF? (The names I used are fictional, assume I mean the names you PMd me).

-Spy
 
The directory where the PDF file is located I have the same permissions set up as in the "mark" directory ( the directory is "files" ) plus the annon. access is checked.
Add on:
OK I did not know that I need to modify file permissions to EACH file I would want to place in that directory, I would think that any file that is inside the directory would be accessible once it is in a directory that has the correct permissions as well as it is part of the URL

Thank you for your help
 
sure, goto the permissions tab and click on "advanced" check "replace permissions on all child objects" and hit "apply"

-Spy
 
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