Installation guide

2. MICROSOFT IIS PLUGIN (WINDOWS)
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5. Right-click the server icon, and then click Properties. Make sure you’ve opened
the Properties dialog for the server as illustrated in Figure 4, and not for the
Default Web Site (or any other web site you may have configured).
6. In Properties, check to make sure WWW Service is selected in the Master
Properties list, and then click Edit.
7. Click the Directory Security tab and under Anonymous Access and
Authentication Control, click Edit. You should then see a dialog similar to
Figure 6.
Figure 6. Authentication Methods
8. Check to make sure Basic Authentication is selected. By default, IIS
authenticates users only in the local domain. If you need to authenticate users in a
network domain, beside Default domain for basic Authentication:, click Edit
and specify the network domain.
9. Click OK to close each dialog.
2.7 User Accounts for Microsoft IIS
Because ServletExec/ISAPI runs as part of the Microsoft IIS process, your servlets will
run under different user accounts at different times. This will primarily affect their ability
to read and write to the file system because access to the NT File System (NTFS) is based
on the user account of the process.
Rules Governing IIS User Accounts
1. During normal request processing in your servlet’s service(), doGet(), or
doPost() method, your servlet will be running under the user account of the
authenticated user, if the user had to enter a username and password to access