Michael Van Cleave
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Site Level Anonymous Access w/ MOSS 2007

Monday, January 22, 2007 3:05 PM

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 


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# re: Site Level Anonymous Access w/ MOSS 2007

I have a publishing portal site like:
http://computername
which contain subsite like:
http://computername/subsite
now i have enabled anonymous in CA's authentication provider for the web application and the top level site's permission, so anonymous access from another computer to http://computername/pages/default.aspx is OK,
but access to subsite homepage http://computername/subsite/pages/default.aspx is prompted with authentication dialog
I found when creating subsite, you have the choice to let subsite with "unique permissions" not "inherit permission from parent site", then i can enable anonymous access in subsite, but still prompted with dialog, even when i enabled anonymous access for the document library "Pages", sill no luck to access the subsite's homepage, anything am i missing?

i see some posts said it may relating with document approve, but this doesn't apply to my case

any suggestion is appreciated!

nxliu 4/28/2007 9:38 PM | nxliu

# re: Site Level Anonymous Access w/ MOSS 2007

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 4/30/2007 10:15 AM | Michael

# re: Site Level Anonymous Access w/ MOSS 2007

I have same issue. Michael, trust me, it works for all sites EXCLUDE subsite created from Publishing template.. 12/27/2007 9:20 AM | Yehiel

# re: Site Level Anonymous Access w/ MOSS 2007

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. 1/1/2008 4:44 AM | Yehiel

# re: Site Level Anonymous Access w/ MOSS 2007

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

1/13/2008 2:32 AM | Yehiel

# re: Site Level Anonymous Access w/ MOSS 2007

I've exactly the same problem; do you already know how to solve it? 6/4/2008 4:52 AM | Helder

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