KB183722 - Password Synchronization and Local User Accounts Information

Article ID: 183722

Article Last Modified on 6/23/2005

Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0

This article was previously published under Q183722

We strongly recommend that all users upgrade to Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) version 6.0 running on Microsoft Windows Server 2003. IIS 6.0 significantly increases Web infrastructure security. For more information about IIS security-related topics, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/prodtech/IIS.mspx

SUMMARY

Although Internet Service Manager allows you to enable password synchronization for a non-local anonymous user account, this is not a supported configuration, and may cause all access to your Web or FTP server to be denied. Password synchronization should only be used with anonymous user accounts defined on the local computer. If your Web site relies on the anonymous user being able to access network resources, you cannot use the anonymous authentication password synchronization feature and you must specify a valid password for the anonymous user.

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