No login prompt at all for Windows Authentication on domain

Question

I'm trying to get a login prompt to appear on a website when you visit from any browser, any computer.

I'm using IIS 7.5 on Windows Server 2008. I've setup the Windows user. I've gone to the authentication section of the domain in IIS manager, everything is disabled except Windows Authentication, which is enabled (didn't change any other settings).

When I visit the website, no prompt comes up and I just get:

401 - Unauthorized: Access is denied due to invalid credentials.

I've looked through multiple threads, I can't find anything relating to 'no login prompt at all'

Edit: I've followed these steps with no success: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754628(v=ws.10).aspx

Not clear on question, You want login Alert box? It can be due to credential manger on client pc. You can try from other pc in same network. — Pankaj Dey, Oct 29 '14 at 10:46
For some reason, I'm not able to bring it up properly with my server configuration. I followed your steps as well as others that I've found throughout the web... nothing has worked. — Tony M, Jun 15 '15 at 12:21

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 23 '15 at 16:12

Finally! After a few attempts and failures, I've figure this out. For some reason when I installed Basic Authentication as a role in the Server Manager (followed these steps), my applicationHost.config file didn't actually update. I'm not sure why but under these two sections; <globalModules> and <modules> I needed to manually add some lines to get basic authentication to work.

I'm showing the entire tree so if anyone needs this, they can find it. I added the line within the section:

<configuration>
    <system.webServer>

        <globalModules>
            <add name="BasicAuthenticationModule" image="%windir%\System32\inetsrv\authbas.dll" />                
        </globalModules>

    </system.webServer>
</configuration>

And another line within the section:

<configuration>
    <location path="" overrideMode="Allow">
        <system.webServer>

            <modules>
                <add name="BasicAuthenticationModule" lockItem="true" />                    
            </modules>

        </system.webServer>
    </location>
</configuration>

Once this was done and I continued with the steps I posted above to disable anonymous auth and enable basic auth, the login prompt finally came up.

And there was much rejoicing :D

No login prompt at all for Windows Authentication on domain

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