FileMaker G0600 - Manual (Page 64)

64 FileMaker Server Getting Started Guide
Setting up authentication for a Windows IIS website
FileMaker Server handles the authentication for password-protected databases that are published via
Custom Web Publishing with XML or XSLT. You can choose whether you want to use IIS website
authentication in addition to FileMaker Server authentication.
You can choose from the following configurations:
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Disable IIS authentication . You can disable all IIS authentication methods and use anonymous access
to the IIS site. This is the simplest configuration. See the next section, “Disabling IIS authentication.”
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Leave IIS authentication enabled and also enable Basic Authentication . You can leave the current
IIS authentication methods enabled for use with other websites, and use Basic Authentication for the
Web Publishing Engine. You must also set up Windows user accounts that exactly match the user
accounts for the web-published FileMaker databases. See “Enabling IIS authentication” on page 65.
Disabling IIS authentication
By default, Windows IIS directory security attempts to authenticate all requests that are made through the
IIS web server. The simplest way to use IIS with FileMaker Server is to disable IIS authentication. If you
disable all IIS authentication methods and use anonymous access to the IIS site, then you don’t need to add
any Windows user accounts.
To disable IIS authentication:
1. From the Control Panel, choose Administrative Tools > Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager to
open the Internet Information Services Manager.
2. In Internet Information Services, select the website and choose Action menu > Properties. You may have
to expand some of the nodes to see the websites.
3. In the Directory Security properties pane, click Edit for authentication methods. (The button name varies
slightly among Windows versions.)
4. In the Authentication Methods dialog box, do the following:
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Ensure that Anonymous Access is enabled.
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For Authenticated access, disable all of the authentication methods.
5. Click OK.