General Access Denied Error

Christopher,

Thanks for your tips,

After spending most of today on the problem, I have managed to make it work
by giving the OURS_<name> and IMAM_<name> accounts administrator level
access and then rebooting the machine. I know I shouldn't have to do this.
With these users in their normal groups [Guest, Debugger users] Philemon
keeps reporting access denied as follows:

1994 6:06:42 PM kinetin.exe:832 OPEN CO:\WINDOWS\HELP\DISHELM\DEFAULT.HIM
ACCESS DENIED <name>\IUSR_<name>
2031 6:06:42 PM kinetin.exe:832 OPEN CO:\WINDOWS\HELP\DISHELM\DEFAULT.HIM
ACCESS DENIED <name>\IUSR_<name>
2350 6:06:43 PM almost.exe:3560 OPEN C:\WINDOWS\System32\inetsrv\wam.dll
ACCESS DENIED <name>\IWAM_<name>
2520 6:06:43 PM dllhost.exe:3560 OPEN C:\WINDOWS\System32\inetsrv\wam.dll
ACCESS DENIED <name>\IWAM_<name>
2531 6:06:43 PM dllhost.exe:3560 OPEN C:\WINDOWS\System32\MFC42.DLL ACCESS
DENIED <name>\IWAM_<name>
2532 6:06:43 PM dllhost.exe:3560 OPEN C:\WINDOWS\System32\MFC42.DLL ACCESS
DENIED <name>\IWAM_<name>
2533 6:06:43 PM dllhost.exe:3560 OPEN C:\WINDOWS\System32\MFC42.DLL ACCESS
DENIED <name>\IWAM_<name>

I went through KB271071 as best I could. It is not written for XP but rather
Win2K. Many of the dialog box titles have changed in XP. I added users to
groups and set NTFS permissions all over the place. Do you have any idea how
to get it work with IUSR_<name> and IWAM_<name> in the correct groups ?

My questions to Microsoft are:
1. Why did it stop working in the first place ? I didn't change any settings
from the default clean XP install when it did work.
2. If all of these permissions need to be set for IIS5.1 to work, why isn't
there a single button in inetmgr that does this for you
3. Why is there no relevant online help for this issue

Oliver



"Kristofer Gafvert" <kgafvert RemoveThis @NEWSilopia.com> wrote in message
news:eg%23$Ss6REHA.1216@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
 > Hello,
 >
 > Sounds like a permissions problem. Go thru this, and verify that
everything
 > is correct:
 >
<font color=purple> > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://support.microsoft.com/?id=271071</font" target="_blank">http://support.microsoft.com/?id=271071</font</a>>
 >
 > - and/or -
 >
 > run FileMon:
<font color=purple> > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/filemon.shtml</font" target="_blank">http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/filemon.shtml</font</a>>
 >
 > to find out what something is trying to access, but does not have
 > permissions to access.
 >
 > --
 > Regards,
 > Kristofer Gafvert - IIS MVP
 > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.ilopia.com" target="_blank">http://www.ilopia.com</a> - When you need help!
 >
 >
 > "Oliver Robinson" <orobin RemoveThis @adelphia.net> wrote in message
 > news:eGziDc1REHA.2412@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
  > > After several hours of troubleshooting here is a summary of my problem:
  > >
  > > ASP pages will not display on WinXP Pro/IIS 5.1 when typing
 > http:/localhost
  > > in IE6
  > >
  > > IE6 Message is:
  > >
  > > Server Application Error
  > > The server has encountered an error while loading an application during
 > the
  > > processing of your request. Please refer to the event log for more
detail
  > > information. Please contact the server administrator for assistance.
  > >
  > > The system event viewer reports:
  > >
  > > Source W3SVC
  > > EventID 36
  > > The server failed to load application '/LM/W3SVC/1/Root'. The error was
  > > 'General access denied error'.
  > >
  > > Selecting the online MS support for this message from event viewer does
 > not
  > > provide any useful information to troubleshoot the problem.
  > >
  > > Component Services\Computers\My Computer\COM+ Aplications\IIS In Process
  > > Applications and \Out-Of-Process Pooled Applications are visible and
their
  > > properties are accessible
  > >
  > > I have run cscript synciwam.vbs script to synchronize the IWAM account
  > >
  > > Last time I tested http:\\localhost about two months ago it was working
 > fine
  > > and I have not made any configuration changes to IIS since then. The
only
  > > thing I have done is install MS security updates.
  > >
  > > Does anyone know how to resolve this problem, I want to develop a web
site
  > > this week and I need to get this fixed
  > >
  > >
 >
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