Microsoft KB Archive/158236

= Error Message: HTTP/1.0 500 Server Error =

Article ID: 158236

Article Last Modified on 10/3/2002

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Personal Web Server 1.0

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This article was previously published under Q158236



SYMPTOMS
When you attempt to access a Web page on a Windows 95-based computer running Microsoft Personal Web Server version 1.0 for Windows 95, you may receive the following error message:

HTTP/1.0 500 Server Error.



CAUSE
This problem may occur if Personal Web Server is configured to use Windows NT Challenge/Response password authentication, but the computer running Personal Web Server is not using a Microsoft Windows NT domain to provide user-level security.



RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, configure Personal Web Server so that Windows NT Challenge/Response password authentication is not used or configure the computer running Personal Web Server so that it uses a Windows NT domain to provide user-level security.

To configure Personal Web Server so that Windows NT Challenge/Response password authentication is not used, follow these steps:
 * 1) Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.
 * 2) Double-click Personal Web Server.
 * 3) On the Administration tab, click Administration, and then click WWW Administration.
 * 4) Click the Windows NT Challenge/Response check box to clear it, and then verify that one or both of the Allow Anonymous and Basic check boxes are selected.

To configure a Windows 95-based computer so that it uses a Microsoft Windows NT domain to provide user-level security, follow these steps:
 * 1) Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.
 * 2) Double-click Network.
 * 3) On the Access Control tab, click User-Level Access Control.
 * 4) Type the name of the Windows NT domain used to provide pass-through validation in the "Obtain list of users and groups from" box, and then click OK.
 * 5) When you are prompted to restart the computer, click Yes.

NOTE: After you change the type of access control a computer is using, any resources that were shared on that computer are no longer shared. You must share these resources again to allow other people to access them.

You can find more information about how to share resources in Windows 95 using online Help. To do so, use the following steps:
 * 1) Click Start, and then click Help.
 * 2) On the Index tab, in the "Type the first few letters of the word you're looking for" box, type sharing, and then click Display.
 * 3) In the Topics Found dialog box, click the appropriate topic, and then click Display.



MORE INFORMATION
Personal Web Server uses the same type of access control as the computer on which it is running. If the "File and printer sharing for Microsoft Networks" network service is installed, the computer can use share-level security or user-level security with pass-through validation provided by a Windows NT domain or Windows NT-based computer. If the "File and printer sharing for NetWare Networks" network service is installed, the computer can use user-level security with pass-through validation provided by a Novell NetWare server. If neither network service is installed, Personal Web Server must use local security.

To use Windows NT Challenge/Response password authentication in Personal Web Server, the computer on which Personal Web Server is running must be using user-level security with pass-through validation provided by a Windows NT domain.

Additional query words: 1.00

Keywords: KB158236

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