IIS7 Authentication problem - iis

I have deployed a web site to a Win 2008 Web server with IIS7. The site works fine on a Win 2003 Standard server with IIS6. On the 2008 box, whenever I request a page (htm or aspx) from a folder named Reports, I get challenged with the Windows Authentication dialog box.
I have Anonymous Authentication and Forms Authentication enabled on the site. I applied Full Control permissions to the root of the site for both NETWORK SERVICE and IIS_IUSRS, but that hasn't make a difference.

Like a previous post already mentioned, here are the detailed steps to fix this:)
If there is a folder in the application named "Reports" and SQL Server Reporting Services are installedon the server, then Reporting Services Virtual Directory folder that is also named "Reports" will be in conflict with the application "Reports" folder.
To fix this open Reporting Services Configuration Manager (Start->All Programs->MS SQL Server->Configuraton Tools) and change the Virtual Directory under the "Report Manager URL" in the menu on the left.

Did you install MSSQL Reporting Services on your new machine? It'll use the Reports folder for the reporting toolkit (default setting) and under MSSQL 2008 you can't enable anonymous Access out of the box.

whats is the authentication mode in your web.config, verify that is not in Windows
<authentication mode="Windows" />
also be sure to disable integrated windows authentication in iis

You could try running FileMon from SysInternals to see if it is the file system that is sending back the "access denied".

Quote from another forum that solved this issue for me:
"SQL Server Reporting Services creates a folder called Reports by default if you install it on IIS. If you install SQL 2008 then Reporting Services doesn't need to use IIS and instead will try to reserve the URL with the HTTP.Sys service.
I believe this is the cause of the conflict you are seeing. What you could try is changing the URL that Reporting Services uses via the SQL Server Reporting Services Configuration Manager."

Well speaking on the same subject here, yesterday I was deploying my application on Windows Server 2008 running IIS7 w/MSSQL 2008 on there too. In my website's tree structure I had a folder named Reports that had a subfolder in it, and then the actual pages. It looked like this "Reports/SalaryReports/SalaryReport.aspx" The interesting thing was that when I clicked on a hyperlink to go to "Reports/SalaryReports/SalaryReport.aspx" I got a username/password prompt from my server. This did not happen on the VS development server when I ran the application on the development machine. So I was like hmm? I looked at the code-behind in SalaryReport.aspx and did not find anything unusual. So then I put a Default.aspx directly in the Reports folder (thinking maybe it was something wrong with the authentication going two nodes down from the root to get to SalaryReport.aspx) but the server still requested username/password even though there was no security settings applied to this new Default.aspx. So I figured it must be that the folder is named "Reports", so I renamed it to "Reports1" and bigno! Everything worked!....I will still look further in this issue today, but it seems that either an IIS 7 HttpModule (not one of mine) is trying to "reserve" the folder that is named "Reports" for itself or something else...I'll look into the SQL Server Reporting services as the above post mentioned...
Anyways, just wanted to share:)

I'm supposing you don't have a SQL Reporting Services running on the same server:
1 - Give rights to user "IUSR" and the user that's running your application pool.
2 - Overwrite child folder permissions and ownership.
2 - Check if there's a web.config file on that folder setting different access rules.

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IIS 8.5 Windows Server 2012 ASP Classic/Active-X COM DLL issues writing to UNC shared folder

I have spent 12 hours on this, tried everything that I have read about, but I cannot get a new server farm we have,the website to write to a shared folder.
I have set the application pools, even temporarily (just to try it out) to admin accounts and even set the folder to be available for "everyone".
We have a network specialist who cannot figure it out either, in his favour he does not understand IIS very well and keeps away from it, but at the end of the day, its just a User account and permissions as far as I can see and I have set up the exact same website on a previous W2012 server and IIS 8.5, 7.5 and 6 without major issues (abeit registering 32bit DLLs in a 64bit environment) but all that has gone well and no issue (except for reading and writing to a shared folder).
SO breaking it down to its simplest form, I used a simple FSO script to write a text file in the shared folder, this clearly came back with "Permission denied line X".
Running the script through cscript as a VBS file, it works, running it through IIS. No chance.
Im not going to give up, but running as the top admin login (I had the network guy use HIS identity in the application pool) its not happening.
32bit has been enabled, yes, folder permissions set, yes.
Im at my wits end with the thing. Anything to suggest, I would be happy to listen and try.
Thanks all.
Update: I can write to the same MACHINE as IIS, any folder as long as I set the appropriate permissions. The difference between from this shared folder (I am working on a server farm, I forgot to mention that) is - when you do the security, locations "IIS AppPool\poolidentity" to add the user, it works on the same server, when I try to add that user on the shared folder on the networked server, that user does not appear - does this give any clues?
Ok - for me, after all the right things that I had done, was something I had not tried.
Select the site in IIS, so you sell all the icons for ASP, Authentication, Autohorization Rules, CGI etc.. - select the Authentication and Open Feature
You will see Anonymous Authentication (Enabled), ASP.NET Impersonation (Disabled), Basic Authentication (Disabled) and so on.
Select the Anonymous Authentication, right click Edit - by default it was set to "Specific User" IUSR - now for me, that did not work - so clicked on Application Pool Identity and boom, now its working.
Hope that helps someone else.

IIS is serving but not executing classic asp script

I wrote a classic ASP script (.asp) for a customer a while back. it was running on IIS v6.1 Windows 2003. The customer contacted me and said they had a catastrophic server failure and restored from backup but my script isn't running now. I logged onto their server to check it out and IIS is serving the file (I am prompted to save when I browse to the script) but not executing the script.
Several people's hands were in the server before they called me, I think this is probably a simple config setting someone tried before they figured out how to enable the "ASP" web server roll feature. But for the life of me I can't figure out how they did it. this is obviously not the default behavior. If I was trying to get this behavior I would add the .asp extension to the MIME types, but I checked and it isn't there.
What could cause IIS to serve the source of the ASP script without executing it?
Based on your question I am assuming your restored server is also windows server 2003 ... in that case you will go to the file\folder and the permissions and select execute permission to enable a server side script processor to handle that request. Been almost a decade that I have touched a 2003 server so I can’t give you the exact steps ... but, you want to enable script permissions on that folder(I think, don’t remember if it’s granular enough to drill down to a file). Also, why on earth are they still running server 2003? Is that version even supported yet?
If it’s IIS 7, you want to make sure your app pool is in Classic ASP mode first off. Then go to site and then the handler mapping section, click edit and configure it that way.

Website not working in IIS 7 using the IIS Manager

I have Microsoft Windows server 2008 R2 and have the IIS 7 running.
I have coded a web application on a seperate laptop and would like to publish it now on my server (serves as AD, DNS, File Server, IIS) that runs locally and has no external access. We will be using the application internally only.
I have followed the steps to install a website on IIS, however, it does not work. Below are the steps I have done.
Created a folder hierarchy and pasted the code files there. (check below image. The code files are inside wwwroot)
Create a new website from the IIS Manager as the below image.
The wwwroot folder has SYSTEM permission and it inherits the permissions from the parent. (Does it need to have other permissions?!?)
Whenever I visit the website, I get an error that the page is not found.
UPDATE
Upon #Ravi A's answer below, I have tried his steps as the below image, but the username is not found and the error persists.
Any ideas what is wrong?
windows iis website
You need to add a binding in your DNS i.e. ping mysite.local should resolve to the server IP, in your case since it's a intranet it should resolve to 192.168.1.253.
See here on how to do it. You need access to DNS Manager.
Also since you are not clear on DNS mapping leave the hostname empty and use machine name or IP to browse the site.

Cannot connect to FoxPro Database from IIS 7.5

I am currently having serious issues connecting to a FoxPro database using an ODBC connection from IIS7.5
The database is on another machine than the IIS server and is accessed via a fileshare.
When I call the webpage from IE on the IIS server everything works fine. When I call the webpage from another machine I get a '[Microsoft][ODBC Visual FoxPro Driver]Cannot open file' error.
The application pool runs as a domain user.
When I run ProcMon on the IIS Server and call the page, when it is called from the IIS Server it accesses the offending file and then a whole bunch of other FoxPro files for that database.
When I run the page from another machine, I get an ACCESS DENIED error when it tries to access the first file.
It is a CreateFile call for a file called Comp_W.DBC that fails.
I checked and it is the same user that is invoking these calls to the fileshare so it is not differing credentials that is causing the problem. I even went as far as making the app pool account a domain admin to see if that might sort out the issue but still the same problem.
I cannot move the database onto the same server as IIS. I have tried to run the web application on the same server as the FoxPro database but I hit different issues to do with the fact that OWA runs on that server, and the 32bit ODBC driver causes conflict with an OWA dll that is loaded as a global module. I really need it to run IIS on a separate server from the FoxPro database.
The server(s) do not seem to be running kerberos as the delegation tab is not present when you administer users.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
James :-)
I'd use the Visual FoxPro OLE DB driver instead of ODBC, because it's newer, faster and won't conflict with OWA. That would let you move it onto the IIS server.
Past experience suggests that you haven't given the IIS user permission to access the folder where the DBFs live. When you run IE on the local machine, you're passing the credentials right through -- when you run it on another machine, I believe the anonymous user rules come into play. (Been a while since I had to debug this one, take it with a grain of salt.)

IIS 7.5 Does Not Reset

Setup: Windows Server 2008 R2, IIS 7.5
We currently have multiple ASP.NET applications hooked up to the "Default Web Site" site in IIS on a server.
Sites
Default Web Site
aspnet_client
Site_v1
Site_v2
Site_v3
I have recompiled the binary for the site, and copied over the files for "Site_v1", then done an IISRESET command.
My issue is that the web app does not actually reset. Our app logs initialization of certain core objects, and the logs do not show that the app is restarting.
Our current theory is that some user has a browser open to one of the default web sites, and that's preventing me from correctly resetting IIS.
Anyone seen anything like this?
Thanks in advance.
Note: I'm posting this to Stack Overflow and not Super User because this is a problem on a development server. I'd like to solve this as a developer correctly compiling an application, rather than as a sys admin changing server settings. Hope that makes sense.
UPDATE:
From Werner's suggestion in the comments, I deleted the temporary files for Site_v2, but could not delete them for Site_v1. Some process was locking the files. After resetting IIS, Site_v1 was working properly, but not Site_v2.
Superconfused!
MS have stopped support for the IISReset command, which means that your approach is OK, but will not work any more. It works for IIS6.0, but not 7.0 or 7.5.
Ref: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/library/dd364308%28v=ws.10%29.aspx
It can be done "by hand" using the GUI, but that is not scripted. I have the same issue, working on an alternative.

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