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800A0046 Permission denied: "CreateObject"

I am having an issue with user accounts running a VB6 application that administrators can run fine. The server is Windows 2003 with all the updates. The server is a terminal server box. I have gone through the VB6 code and determined that the error is occuring when trying to create an object. I have created a VB script to test with. It is listed below. I get a 800A0046 permission denied: "CreateObject" error when attempting to run the script as a regular user. Administrator works fine. There are many posts here and elsewhere that talk about this issue. I have looked at all of them and am still stuck. Any help or suggestions you can give even if they are a repeat of other posts will be greatly appreciated.

Set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
msgbox "done"

Guy Hengel [angelIII / a3]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/197964/EN-US/

jesimon

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I have already seen that article. IIS is not involved.

Shane Russell

http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/Logon/code/code_800A0046.htm

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PeterSinger

Note on this issue, for Windows 2000 Servers running citrix or users in terminal service, this problem can happen with two solutions;
1. Install Wscript 5.6 for W2000
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=C717D943-7E4B-4622-86EB-95A22B832CAA&displaylang=en
2. Grant full user permissions to the regkey HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Scripting.FileSystemObject
3. Make sure that no policies change the permissions on the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Scripting.FileSystemObject key or the problem will return

800A0046 Permission denied: &quot;CreateObject&quot;

800A0046 Permission denied: "CreateObject"