I carefully followed the instructions for logging into my account with IIS 7 Manager for Remote Administration and I get "The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized" every time. I tried with the control panel user. I then created a new user and gave it permissions and checked the box to "Select Users to grant Microsoft IIS Manager access" on the IIS Tools->MS IIS Manager section of the Control Panel. There are several Features Enabled (Web.Config Backup, etc). Every attempt is the same. I even tried the FTP user account (like control panel but with account id prefix). No go. I double-checked the instructions at https://support.discountasp.net/KB/a400/how-to-connect-to-windows-2008iis-7-using-microsoft.aspx but still had no luck. I tried to view the section "Note: You may want to check out - How to use IIS7 Manager Video" but that link is broken. Please help.
I found the problem For anyone with this same issue: I was using camelCase for the site name, which is the second parameter for connecting to a new site. The KB article says to use the Domain name, which I did, however, when I tried it in all lowercase, it worked and I am now connected. So, if your domain was goodwork.com and you tried goodWork.com as the site name, you would have problems.
Hmm.. what version of IIS manager you are using? I tested it on mine and it doesn't seem to care what case I used. It should not be case sensitive and if we can replicate it, we may have found a bug here.
Same problem here I am also getting the authorization failure. Caps are off, and I even reset my password. Still no authorization. If this has been resolved, please post a solution. Thx.
Solved my problem I was trying to connect to a server. Set IIS Manager to connect to a site, and I was successful connecting.
I can't connect either. I keep getting the 401 error. I don't know what I'm doing wrong here. Edit: Wow. It turned out be changing from "www.mydomain.net" to "mydomain.net". The latter is the actual registered domain? Ugh.
Yes. www.mydomain.net is actually a subdomain of mydomain.net. Technically speaking, mydomain.net is a second-level domain name, and www.mydomain.net is a host name. But for everyday purposes and applications, mydomain.net (without the www) is the domain name.
