Access Control

You can control which users and computers are allowed to access to your Web server and its resources. You can use both the Windows NT File System and Web server security features to assign users specific access rights to directories and files.

This section contains:

About Access Control: Overview information about restricting access to files and directories.
Securing Your Files with NTFS: Procedural guidelines for configuring the Windows NT File Systems (NTFS) security features.
Setting Access Permissions for a Directory or File: Procedural information about configuring Window NT File System (NTFS) permissions, which define the level of file or directory access assigned to a Windows NT account.
Configuring the Anonymous Access Account: Important procedural information about creating and establishing an account that grants users access to your public Web and FTP content.
Granting and Denying Access to Computers: Preventing specific computers, groups of computers, or entire networks from accessing your Web content.
Setting Web Server Permissions: Setting Web and FTP content restrictions that apply to all users.
Using ASP for Access Control Learn how to write scripts for controlling access to your .asp files.
Controlling Database Access Guidelines for protecting your database files from unauthorized access.

This section does not contain information on:

Configuring content rating features to warn users about objectionable Web content; see Using Content Ratings
Configuring your Web server's powerful Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) security features; see Setting up SSL on Your Server.