IIS Manager cannot verify whether the built-in account has access

LocalSystem (currently)

Hi,

have you seen this?:

http://forums.iis.net/t/1148262.aspx

Cheers.

I checked the link - noticed there was no resolution there either - except null sessions or to use an account other than NetworkService (which MS claims is not necessary, though they don't actually show you how to get NetworkService account to  actually work). :(

Here's what I've done so far (besides granting full permissions to the application folder to every account on the machine - which STILL does nothing)
ran the following on the command line (apparently, this changes all the web.config files for all the apps running
under the "Default Web Site"

%SystemRoot%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd migrate config "Default Web Site/" - this fixed the "Managed Pipeline Error"

right click the virtual directory and selected "convert to application" - fixed other errors and allowed me to change the application pool (sinde the default pool, no matter what, never appears to work )

created a new application pool called "compatibilitypool" - the default pool had the same settings but never worked, so I created a new pool

- set the following for the compatibilityPool I created, and the site is now visible (though the error above is still there, it still works)

Enable 32-bit Applications = True
Managed Pipeline Mode = Classic

Identity = NetworkService (this account has FullControl over the folder)
LoadUserProfile = False

Now I get "Error: Unable to Start Debugging on the Web Server" when trying to debug the app, though it works fine off of "http://localhost/mywebapp" - the Help section mentions something about this also be a permissions problem (what account should I use? what permissions do I give it? where do I give those permissions? )

I can debug a newly created website, so why not this one?!?!?

That's crazy!  The only thing I can suggest (which is what I'd be doing in this situation) would be to enable auditing on the entire system and look for access failure events for clues as to what is going on.  This should at least tell you want credentials are being passed and where access is being attempted (and failing)

Regards,  Mike.

mmm, sorry - I don't know anything about vista.  used it once, avoied it ever since.

But, I would suspect that it would be something similar to other windows platforms - right click the disk in my computer and choose properties.  Would be somewhere under security and audit heading.

Cheers,  Mike.

bd9000 is right - Microsoft are proving singularly useless in this area. I've Googled this problem extensively and the only responses I find are either people like me looking for a solution, or various uber-geekish responses that don;t sound anythging like solutions to me. This is fairly fundamental to my work as a web developer, yet here I am swimming around in the supposedly wonderful Windows 7 with no local webserver. Come on someone - how do I fix this??

it's happening to me and still can't find out the solution.well maybe i am just using virtual machine to set setup Active Directory.