Microsoft KB Archive/190516

= Anonymous Account Is Improperly Detected on IIS 4.0 =

Article ID: 190516

Article Last Modified on 12/1/2000

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft FrontPage 98 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q190516



SYMPTOMS
When you attempt to set Permissions on a FrontPage Web to "Everyone has browse access", the following error message may appear:

"Server error: To allow all users to have browse access to your web, the

account used for anonymous logons by your Microsoft Internet

Information Server must have the same password as in User Manager.

Please try again."

If you try this and fail three times in succession, the lockout policy on the IUSR account is activated, and the Web server is not accessible to anonymous users. Re-synchronizing the passwords has no effect.



CAUSE
This problem occurs because FrontPage checks for the Automatic Password Synchronization parameter in the Internet Information Server 4.0 MetaBase at the server level, rather than the Website level.



RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, install the FrontPage 98 Server extensions, version 3.0.2.1706 or later.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft FrontPage 98 for Windows. This problem has been fixed with the FrontPage 98B Patch and the FrontPage Server Extensions, version 3.0.2.1706.



MORE INFORMATION
For additional information about fixes in the FrontPage 98B release, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

188890 FP98: Server Extension Fixes in FrontPage 98B Release

Additional query words: 98 Bug Fix synchronization

Keywords: kbbug kbfix KB190516

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