Windows' directory authentication

[Anon]

I am more familiar with Apache than IIS, but now I have an application that requires I use IIS. Anyway, we have Win2k Server and I need to password protect everything in a directory. The problem is I can't add PHP code to everything under the directory for an authentication script. I am hoping I can do this with an .htaccess-like directory authentication. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[Anon]

I forgot to mention that we have a database of users/passwords and I would like to keep some of their information in session variables while they are in the password protected directory.

[ame12]

I think you're describing two different types of authentication. If you would like IIS to authenticate directly (using NT ACL's - e.g., by right clicking on a file and setting files sharing permissions), then you are going to use users/groups in the NT SAM. This is a much better/easier way in IIS to manage it (if you can get away with managing accounts using NT's User Manager).

If you need a more dynamic list of users (like a site where people frequently register themselves for access), then you'll need a database of some sort to manage users/passwords. There are lots of examples on this site (mostly using MySQL).

So I guess the question becomes what kind of user account mgmt do you need?

Dave

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