Granting Guest Privileges to a Web Server Computer

Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)

Granting Guest Privileges to a Web Server Computer

The anonymous Web server account (IUSR_ComputerName) must be added to the Guests local group on the Web server computer to use RDS.

To grant guest privileges to a Web server computer

  1. On your Windows 2000 Server computer, click Start, point to Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Computer Management.

  2. In the console tree, in Local Users and Groups, click Groups.

  3. Select the Guests local group. From the Action menu, choose Properties.

  4. In the Guests Properties dialog box, click Add.

  5. If the anonymous Web server account doesn't appear in the list in the Select Users or Groups dialog box, type its name (IUSR_ComputerName) into the bottom blank box, then click Add.

  6. Click OK.