I was wondering what the steps to changing these names in Win2k?

I use the same IUSR name for each site (I know I should use seperate) . I have gone in IIS and changed the IUSR for WWW and FTP but where do you change the IWAM username and is there anywhere else I need to change the IUSR usernames?

Originally posted by redbrad0
I was wondering what the steps to changing these names in Win2k?

I use the same IUSR name for each site (I know I should use seperate) . I have gone in IIS and changed the IUSR for WWW and FTP but where do you change the IWAM username and is there anywhere else I need to change the IUSR usernames?

You will have to use MetaEdit to do it (or some of the CLI-scripts supplied by Microsoft for IIS administration) and afterwards you'll need to set the password for the new account in the Component Services.

However, you REALLY don't want to mess with this - the account is being used internally by IIS when executing e.g. ASP-scripts and is NOT unique for each domain. I have been changing the IWAM account a couple of times during migration operations but it's NOT for the faint of heart - if you don't know what you're doing, you'll cause havoc to ASP, Frontpage Extensions and whatnot on the server. I know, because the first time I tried this, I didn't know what I was doing... ;)

Oh, and by the way: Setting a specific IUSR for each domain should be sufficient.

Well I have allready changed the names but the IWAM_ I am guessing I did not get right as it was recreated by IIS or some other program. It would still be nice and sure many other people would enjoy knowing how to do this. If someone can give me some general steps I was planning on writing out detail instructions with screen captures to hopefully help other users.

OK - it's here:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q297989

A more comprehensive collection of links regarding troubleshooting IIS:

http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBL/tip5600/rh5652.htm

Thats for the links... I went to the MS sites and I saw it was saying to get the IUSR password and then set it in IIS which seems funky because wouldnt IIS allready have that password because it was currently using the IWAM_ account. Thanks for the reply though and when I get a chance I will try it out and take some screen captures and post a link back here.

Thats for the links... I went to the MS sites and I saw it was saying to get the IUSR password and then set it in IIS which seems funky because wouldnt IIS allready have that password because it was currently using the IWAM_ account. Thanks for the reply though and when I get a chance I will try it out and take some screen captures and post a link back here.

The articles I linked are mainly for when something already has gone wrong with the IUSR_ or IWAM_ accounts but I thought they were relevant anyway since they show how to get "under the hood" of IIS and manipulate these two accounts - and a lot of other pretty dangerous stuff as well... :)

However, you're correct that the articles doesn't answer your initial question.