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401 Error after Sharing wwwroot folder on HomeGroup in IIS7, Windows 7

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After sharing my wwwroot folder to the rest of my homegroup, I'm now getting the following error on my website: Server Error 401 - Unauthorized: Access is denied due to invalid credentials. You do not have permission to view this directory or page using the credentials that you supplied. My guess i…

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Fix for: 401 Error after Sharing wwwroot folder on HomeGroup in IIS7, Windows 7

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In order to reset the wwwroot permissions I went to another box and copied all the settings to the web server having issues. Here's the steps to return to the default permissions for the wwwroot folder: right-click on the wwwroot folder and click Pr…

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