this is definitely possible because I do ittrhe other way round to lock down the administrator folder, so require authentication only on that sub directory. try using a virtual directory instead of a physical directory.
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Carl Von Stetten <vonner.li...@vonner.net>wrote: > > Dave, > > On my previous Win2K3 server, the only way I was able to get scheduled > tasks to run properly was to allow anonymous access to the subfolder in > the application which stored the scripts for scheduled tasks. This > worked fine for several years on the old server. > > I was trying to do the same thing on the new Win2K8R2 server (IIS 7.5). > The application requires NTLM authentication, but I haven't been able to > get the scheduled tasks to run. Even when I hit the scheduled task > pages directly in a browser (Firefox and Chrome), I am prompted to login > with Active Directory credentials. I also tried turning the subfolder > in question into a virtual application in IIS 7.5 but that didn't seem > to make any difference. > > Anyway, as you indicate, it appears that under IIS 7.5 you can't open a > "security hole" (my quotes) by allowing anonymous access to a subfolder > in a site requiring authentication. So my workaround is to create a new > site just for running scheduled tasks, and have that entire site allow > anonymous authentication (thanks also to Russ who kinda suggested > this). I am now able to get these scheduled tasks to run properly. > > Thank you Dave and Russ for your suggestions! > -Carl > > On 8/10/2012 4:19 PM, Dave Watts wrote: > >> OK. I created a local Windows user account named "SchedTasks". I gave > that account read permissions to the folder. I set > >> Anonymous Authentication to "Enabled" just for that folder, and set the > credentials to use the SchedTasks account. In the CF > >> Scheduled Task, I specified SchedTask for the username, and filled in > the correct password. I still get the 401.2 error when > >> running the scheduled task. > > If you're creating a user account for CF to use, why would you enable > > anonymous authentication? That's not going to help you any. > > > > First, I'd recommend that you don't even bother testing from CF yet. > > Test from Firefox or some other non-IE HTTP client (wget, etc). > > > > Second, I don't think you can set anonymous authentication for a > > folder, as such - it has to be a virtual server or a virtual > > application. I could be wrong about that, though. > > > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > > http://www.figleaf.com/ > > http://training.figleaf.com/ > > > > Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on > > GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized > > instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite. > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:352128 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
