JSI Tip 0391 - IIS Services registry entries.

Jerold Schulman

January 14, 1998

2 Min Read
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The IIS services are:

MSFTPSVC

FTP Service

GOPHERSVC

Gopher service

W3SVC

WWW service

These registry entries are located at:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetServicesParameters

Value

Type

Default

D e s c r i p t i o n

AdminName

REG_SZ

 Administrator 

 The Gopher service uses this name when sending responses to Gopher Plus queries. 

AdminEmail

REG_SZ

 [email protected] 

 Specifies the e-mail address for the administrator of the Gopher service. 

AllowGuestAccess

 REG_DWORD 

 1 

 0=IIS rejects Guest logins. 1=IIS accepts Guest logons. This entry is only used by FTP and WWW

AnonymousUserName

 REG_SZ 

 IUSR_ComputerName 

 The user name used by anonymous users connecting to this service. Because the password is stored in a protected area in the Registry, you cannot set it by editing the Registry. 

Authorization

REG_DWORD

 1 

 Specifies the user authentication methods used by the IIS service. This value is a binary bit mask as follows:0=(None)FTP, WWW, Gopher.1=Anonymous logonsFTP, WWW, Gopher.2=Clear text logonsFTP and WWW only.3=Anonymous and clear text logonsFTP and WWW only.4=Windows NT Challenge/Response logonsWWW only.5=Anonymous and Windows NT Challenge/Response logonsWWW only.6=Clear text and Windows NT Challenge/Response logonsWWW only.7=Anonymous, Clear text and Windows NT Challenge/Response logonsWWW only.  

CheckForWAISDB

REG_DWORD

 0 

 0=The IIS service does not perform content-based searches using the WAIS toolkit. 1=The IIS service performs searches if the WAIS toolkit (Waislook.exe) is installed in the system. 

ConnectionTimeOut

REG_DWORD

 900 (seconds - decimal) 

 How long IIS maintains an idle connection. 

DefaultLogonDomain

REG_SZ

 ? 

  The logon domain used to validate a clear-text logon when no domain is specified in the user name field. If IIS is running on a stand-alone computer, the default is the ComputerName. If the computer is in a domain, the default is the machine name of the PDC. 

EnableSvcLoc

REG_DWORD

 1 

 0=You can not use the Internet Service Manager to configure the IIS Service. 1=You can. 

InstallPath

REG_SZ

 SystemrootSystem32Inetsrv 

 The path to the location where the IIS service is installed. 

LogFileDirectory

REG_EXPAND_SZ

 SystemrootSystem32Logfiles 

 Each IIS service can be configured to record information in a transaction log file. 

LogFileFormat

REG_DWORD

 0 

 0=Standart. 3=National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Common Log File format. 

LogFilePeriod

REG_DWORD

 1 

 0=No time limit. Instead, logs are limited by the size specified in the LogFileTruncateSize. 1=New log each day. 2=New log each week. 3=New log each month. 

LogFileTruncateSize

REG_DWORD

 0x01388000 (20 MB) 

 0=Limited by free space. 

LogonMethod

REG_DWORD

 0 

 0=Only users who log on locally can access IIS. 1=Users must have permission to logon as a batch job. 2=Users must have permission to access the computer over the network. If you are running SQL Server through an ODBC connector with SQL Integrated Security enabled, you must set this value to either 0 or 1. 

LogSqlDataSource

REG_SZ

 ? 

 WWW=HTTPLOG. FTP=TSLOG. Gopher=TSLOG 

LogSqlPassword

REG_SZ

 sqllog 

 The ODBC password for the user designated in LogSqlUserName. 

LogSqlTableName

REG_SZ

 ? 

 WWW=InternetLog. FTP=ftplog. Gopher=gophlog. 

LogSqlUserName

REG_SZ

 InternetAdmin 

 The user name used for accessing the data source for ODBC-based logging. 

LogType

REG_DWORD

 1 

 0=No logging. 1=Log to file. 2=Log to ODBC data source. 

MaxConnections

REG_DWORD

 ? 

 WWW=0x186A0 (100,000). FTP=0x3E8 (1,000). Gopher=0x3E8 (1,000). 

Pathname

REG_EXPAND_SZ

 SystemrootSystem32Inetsrv 

 This value is not used. 

ServerComment

REG_SZ

Blank

 The text that appears in the Comment box on the Internet Service Manager Properties dialog box for each IIS service. 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetControlServiceProviderServiceTypesTcpPort is a REG_DWORD which defaults as:

GOPHERSVC

70 (0x46)

MSFTPSVC

21 (0x15)

W3SVC

80 (0x50)

Microsoft Internet Information Server

1368 (0x558)


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