Where are the IIS log files stored?
• What are the different IIS authentication modes in IIS 5.0 and Explain? Difference between basic and digest authentication modes? IIS provides a variety of authentication schemes: • Anonymous (enabled by default) • Basic • Digest • Integrated Windows authentication (enabled by default) • Client Certificate Mapping Anonymous Anonymous authentication gives users access to the public areas of your Web site without prompting them for a user name or password. Although listed as an authentication scheme, it is not technically performing any client authentication because the client is not required to supply any credentials. Instead, IIS provides stored credentials to Windows using a special user account, IUSR_machinename. By default, IIS controls the password for this account. Whether or not IIS controls the password affects the permissions the anonymous user has. When IIS controls the password, a sub authentication DLL (iissuba.dll) authenticates the user using a network logon. The functio
