IIS 4.0: Unable to create virtual directory into Windows 2..

So you are using anonymous authentication, correct? Your connect as box is only used to make the connection to the remote server.
The red error icon I'm not too woried about, as it may just be benign; I remember that being an issue in the past. To ensure you need
to have the user being used for the "connect as" on the ntfs permissions on the remote share, and since this is anonymous, I think you
will need to create an IUSR account that matches the one on your IIS server, on the remote server, and add that to the permissions as
well. You will need to run adsutil from a cmd line on your IIS server to find out your password. cscript adsutil.vbs get
w3svc/anonymoususerpass

You can try this as a test...Turn on Basic for the virtual, and make sure you have that account that you are going to authenticate with
added to the permissions on the remote directory. You will be prompted, but ensure you can reach the content first.

Thank you. I hope this information is helpful.

Tim Coffey [MSFT]

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| Hello all,
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| in a NT4 domain I am still running a IIS 4. Trying to create a virtual
| directory to a network share inside a Windows 2000 domains fails. IIS 4
| reports incorrect username or password I made in the "connect as..." dialog.
| But the account is definitely correct with "domainname\user". Curios is in
| the console that the contained subfolders and documents of the share are
| listed anyway, but the virtual directory displays an error icon. When
| calling the virtual directory in the browser a login window is presented.
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| Simply mapping a network drive to the network share is working properly, in
| the IIS console it fails.
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| What's wrong?
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