ASP.NET MVC Windows Authentication 403 Forbidden: Access is denied

Question

Hello all,

I'm developing an ASP.NET MVC 2 app using Windows Authentication. When I run it within Visual Studio (using the built-in IIS), under the same domain, I was able to login using my credential. But when I deployed it to the server, which is also on the same domain, in-house, I got the "403 - Forbidden: Access is denied." error.

I notice that when running it from within Visual Studio, opening the site from IE automatically logs me on, no prompts. But when trying to access it from the server (again, on the same domain), IE prompts me to log-on, and eventually gave the 403 error.

I'm not sure if there are extra settings that I need to do on my app, on the server, or both?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Did you change the Application Pool to run under a privileged account?