Basic Authentication not found in IIS 6.0

Question

For Sharepoint Central Admin to work I need to enable Basic Authentication in IIS 6.0 http://community.bamboosolutions.com/forums/p/2287/2881.aspx For some reason I am not able to find it in IIS 6.0 on my machine.

I See only Anonymous authentication, ASP.net Impersonation, Forms Authentication.

Any thoughts?

Answer 1

You need to be admin on your machine to change this setting. If you are, follow these instructions and you should be fine.

Answer 2

You may not have installed all the authentication components for IIS.

Go to add remove programs -> Add remove windows features

there under IIS i will recommend you to check all the options and install a fully blown iis server, however if you can understand what each element means, you can check the components which will add all the authentication features for iis.