IIS 7.5 401 -UnAuthorized Access on a Virtual Directory

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Published on 2010-12-23T10:51:04Z Indexed on 2010/12/23 10:55 UTC
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I have setup a website in IIS 7.5 on a Windows 2008 machine. The website is sitting on C:/websites/

Then I added a virtual directory called "/uploads" that points to "d:/websites/uploads". This directory holds all the images/media.

When I browse the website in browser, I dont see any images etc. When I browse an image directly I notice that it's throwing a 401 error.

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

I have searched Google quite a lot and I am pretty sure I am have all the permissions setup correctly.

Can anyone tell me what I could be doing wrong here?

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