Enable Anonymous Access in moss2007

Anonymous Access:
This is one of the way to allow users to access the webapplication without having to sign up or login.i.e of unknown authorship.
Enabling Anonymous access in the MOSS2007:
1>web application level
2> Sub site level
Providing Anonymous Access for a Web application
Step1:
Central administration -->Application Management --> Authentication Providers-->select your Web application (http://ramesh-sony:9999/) -->click on Default under Zone --> Select the Checkbox to Enable Anonymous Access --> Save.
Step2:
browse the Web application (http://ramesh-sony:9999/) SiteActions-->site settings-->under Users and Permissions--> select Advanced permissions-->Settings-->Anonymous Access -->select the Anonymous optin as EntireWebsite option.













Providing Anonymous Access for a Sub site in the Web application :
Note:Subsite should not inherit the Parent Permissions from the Web application ..so that we need to create the Subsite with Unique permissions then only we can enable Anonymous access only at sub site level.
Step1:
In the sub site --> site actions --> sitesettings -->Advanced Permissions -->Settings --> here we cannot find the Anonymous Option. So we need to Add(_layouts/setanon.aspx) this to the subsite url i.e http://servername/sussitename/setanon.aspx
If the webapplication is not yet configured with Anonymous then in the subsite the Anonymous Options will look like that.(the options are disabled).










Step2:
We need to enable the Anonymous access at webapplication level. Same as the above
Central administration --> Application Management --> Authentication Providers -->select your Web application (http://ramesh-sony:9999/) -->click on Default under Zone --> Select the Checkbox to Enable Anonymous Access --> Save.
Step3:
Now Navigate to Sub site Url :i.e http://servername/subsitename/setanon.aspx. Now we need to select the EntireWebsite --> ok Now the Subsite is Enabled with Anonymous Access