IIS Security

If I point someone to my server as root ( like [link] ) will the server prompt for user/password by default?  People can currently get in without password prompts, but only if the URL has a sub-folder in it. ...

When I create a new website on my 2003 Server/IIS 6 machine, I select the option to allow anonymous access.  but, when I try and browse the site I get a permissions issue (401.3 - not authorized). When I check, Windows Authentication is set and IIS_USR does NOT have ...

I am using IIS 6 trying to prevent a user group from being able to access the virtual directories.  I have prevented the group from accessing files on the IIS server by turning off anonymous authentication.  however if the users in ...

Hi    I have iisstart.htm,error404.htm(custom error page) pages in my web application for . When a user reuests page and resource is not found on web server then the web server executes iisstart.htm and not the error404.htm, ...