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IIS 401 Unauthorized

I am invoking an IIS hosted remote object on a local machine running XP pro.
I'm using Visual Studio .NET to build it.

Every time I execute the applicaition, I get a 401 unauthorised error.

I am using MSDE as a database to return results, and I have set the MACHINE\ASPNET account up.
I don't do servers.
What gives?

Jon

Ancient_Orange

did you set up the acess rights for your page in the IIS correctly ?

i guess you have to allow scripts on the page.

JonnyMX

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I'm only using IIS as an activation agent for a server process, so there isn't really a 'page' in the conventional ASP.NET sense. The WWWroot only holds a config file with a system.runtime.remoting element.

I don't know if it is IIS denying me - like I said, not good with servers, or if MSDE is denying IIS.
MSDE is a pig to administer.

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Focusyn

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JonnyMX

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Woo Yay.
Thank you for an excellent and in depth answer. Now working OK.
I ran the IIS lockdown tool recently, which may have scrambled my settings.
Thank you kindly.

Now if you could just do something about my wife's parking tickets... ;->

Focusyn

Well, I am doing about 5 jobs right now, one of which is technical writer, so I guess detailed walkthru descriptions are what I do half the day. Sorry about the tickets though, I'm in the Corrections agency, not the state police...