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Okay, so there has been an issue with the portal that I have been working on where an anonymous user could not get to a certain subsite.  I turned to this article, which was very helpful previously with getting some anonymous stuff set up previously.

The problem is that on the Site level Anonymous Access I wasn't able to see the selection in the Settting tab of the permissions list that said "Anonymous Permissions".  They just were not there.  Then I happened to realize that when I looked at the url, I was logged in to the url that was posted as the 'Default' Access Provider and not the alternate access provider that was setup for Anonymous Access. 

So, I changed the url that I was accessing the portal through to use the Extranet url, checked the options on settings again and there it was.  "Anonymous Permissions". 

I guess the lesson here is that if you are entering MOSS through a URL that is not identified having Anonymous enabled, you will not see that option in the Settings selection on the permissions list labled in the above article.

Now to figure out the other issues that have presented themselves.  :)

Happy coding.

Michael 

Posted on Monday, January 22, 2007 3:05 PM | Back to top


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I would say go to your Anonymous url and log in when prompted with a user that has administrative privilages.

Verify anonymous is set at the site level, pages library level, and then also verify that your pages in your Pages directory are inheriting permissions from parent.

If there is any one part in the request chain that doesn't allow Anonymous then it will prompt. Trust me, this can be very elusive. Check everything.

Michael
Left by Michael on Apr 30, 2007 10:15 AM

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I have same issue. Michael, trust me, it works for all sites EXCLUDE subsite created from Publishing template..
Left by Yehiel on Dec 27, 2007 9:20 AM

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Michael, breaking the inheritance and explicit defining of anonymous acces on son site doesn't help. Don't say "must work", just try explained case.
Left by Yehiel on Jan 01, 2008 4:44 AM

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Deactivating the lockdown mode and then create a new subsite also doesn't help

Left by Yehiel on Jan 13, 2008 2:32 AM

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I've exactly the same problem; do you already know how to solve it?
Left by Helder on Jun 04, 2008 4:52 AM

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Hi!

1 - In Central Administration --> Application Management --> Authentication Provides
2 - Select a Zone (On my server "Default")
3 - check option "Enable Anonymous Access"
4 - Go to your site, Site Actions
5 - Modify All settings --> Advanced Permissions
6 - if not appear "Settings" go to Menu Action and select option "Edit User Permissions"
7 - Menu Settings --> Anonymous Access
8 - Select your option and the Anonymous Access is configurated!

See you
Left by Rodrigo zotto on Oct 28, 2008 7:14 AM

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This worked for me...

"The workaround for setting anonymous access at the site level is to access the anonymous access admin page (setanon.aspx) directly. This admin page looks at the url to determine which site to set anonymous access for. For example, to configure anonymous access for the sub-site, you would access http://sharepoint.mycompany.com/subsite-a/_layouts/setanon.aspx. If you wanted to set anonymous access for the site collection, you would access http://sharepoint.mycompany.com/_layouts/setanon.aspx. Many other admin pages are url context sensitive like this."
Left by spidiot on Dec 13, 2008 9:12 PM

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hi,
I have created one publishing site by using Custom site template. Then i applied the anonymous access to the newly created site. Now when i am deploying the web part on the home page , web part deployes successfully. but when i access this url, its ask me for username and password. Is there any thing missing by me???

What would be the reason for this?
Reply ASAP

Thanks
Left by Kirti on Jan 01, 2009 9:23 AM

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Kirti,
Generally this will happen when your web part is trying to access something that need authorization for the user to access. For instance if your part tries to access another part of the site that is not anonymous or another resource such as the file system then it will prompt for username and password.

Verify that your webpart isn't trying to access something an anonymous user can't access. if you do find that it is in need of some information in a restricted part of the site then you might need to do some security impersonation to gain access to the area in your code. This should take care of the issue for you.

HTH,

Michael
Left by Michael on Jan 01, 2009 2:40 PM

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