Issue with IIS 6 authentication

[r8j8t]

Hello
I am sorry if this is in the wrong thread, but I am in lot of trouble so putting in all relevent threads
I am running a web site with annoymous access selected with Windows Authentication option selcted. The web sites are hosted on Win 2003 running with IIS 6.
All the sites were running fine before i try to change IUSR default account in the directory security.
I used another user account to log on as anonymous user and removed the default IUSR account form the annoymous user box.
I could not browze my sites after that, so I decided to change back to the default setting with IUSR as annoymous user and windows authentication check box selcted as it was working fine for me.
Now the big problem:
When i try to browse the site through IE or even localy on the server I am asked for user name and password. I dont understand why it is doing this as I have reverted back to anoymous access. Is it that some things have changed in the default IUSR account,when i removed it and readded it again to Directory Security.
I can't seem to solve this issue. Can someone pls help me in this regard. I need to resolve this issue urgently. Any help will be hightly appreciated.
Thanks

 

[Hondy]

have you tried restarting the web service?

 

[lhuegele]

Yes, restart the web publishing service. That should clear it up.

 

[r8j8t]

Thanks very much Hondy and IIhuegele. Well I will try that tomorrow. Hopefully it will solve the issue....
I dont know why I did not hink about restarting the web serice, thanks for your reply

 

[MikeKhod]

IIS Security changes dont take affect unless u restart IIS. Atleast in IIS 5.0...its should be the same on IIS6.
I had a problem with .net security issues where i reinstalled SP2 and it fixed it.