Client Authentication
The Client Authentication page of the Configure Web Synchronization Wizard lets you specify the type of authentication to be used when a client connects to the server that is running Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS), also referred to as the Web server.
Options
Clients will connect anonymously. A user name and password will not be required.
Select this option to permit anonymous access to the client. Anonymous access is a type of IIS authentication method that gives client access to your Web site without prompting them for a user name or password. When a user tries to connect to your public Web site, the Web server by default assigns the connection to the Windows user account IUSR_computername, where computername is the name of the computer on which IIS is running.
Clients will be authenticated. A user name and password will be required.
Select this option to enforce authenticated access to the client. Authenticated access is a type of IIS authentication method that forces a client to provide identification credentials, such as a user name and a password, every time the client connects to the Web server. These credentials are validated against some authority, such as a database. If the credentials are valid, the user who submitted the credentials is considered an authenticated identity.
Note
If you specify Anonymous access and the instances of IIS and Microsoft SQL Server are located on different computers, you must configure the IIS anonymous user account as a domain user account. The default anonymous user computername\IUSR_computername cannot be used because it is a local account for a computer. For more information about these options, see IIS Security.
See Also
Tasks
How to: Configure Connectivity with the Configure Web Synchronization Wizard
Reference
Authenticated Access
Configure Web Synchronization Wizard Help
Concepts
Configuring Connectivity Support in IIS