Pass-through authentication to UNC virtual directories can be enabled through the IIS Manager (332151)

SUMMARY

In Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0, pass-through authentication to UNC virtual directories cannot be configured in the Internet Services Manager (ISM). In IIS 6.0, the IIS Manager contains a check box that permits you to omit the user name and password. If no user name and password are specified, IIS uses the requesting user credentials when you are using an authentication method that can perform delegation to authenticate to the remote share.

MORE INFORMATION

The metabase key that is used in IIS 5.0 to enable pass-through authentication is UNCAuthenticationPassthrough. In IIS 6.0, this metabase key is not used for UNC authentication. The metabase properties UNCUserName and UNCPassword are still used.

Note Pass-through authentication only works for authentication methods that can perform delegation, such as Basic and Kerberos.

You can still set a static user account and password to connect to the resource. For more information, see the product documentation references in the "References" section.

REFERENCES

More information about securing virtual directories that are mapped to UNC shares is available in the product documentation. To view this documentation, visit the following Microsoft Web sites:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/8a0e917a-795c-49b7-8896-f46291b289d6.mspx

You can also access the product documentation through the IIS Manager. For more information about how to access this Help feature through the IIS Manager, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

815127 How to access IIS 6.0 Help documentation

For more information, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

280383 IIS security recommendations when you use a UNC Share and username and password credentials

207671 How to access network files from IIS applications

180362 Services and redirected drives

257174 Using mapped drives with IIS

For more information about how to enable pass-through authentication in IIS 5.0, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

214806 How to enable pass-through authentication for UNC virtual directories