Thread: Access Denied

Last post 09-17-2008 11:13 AM by gsullivan. 2 replies.

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09-15-2008, 3:59 PM

gsullivan
Joined on 09-15-2008, 3:47 PM
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Access Denied

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The installer for our application includes the following bit of code:

public static ArrayList PopulateSites(string serverName)

{

ArrayList sites = new ArrayList();

DirectoryEntry w3svc = new DirectoryEntry("IIS://" + serverName + "/w3svc");

DirectoryEntries webSites = w3svc.Children;

int id =0;

foreach(DirectoryEntry entry in webSites)

<snip>

Everything runs fine on our Windows 2003 servers, but now we are attempting to run our installer on a new Windows 2008 server with IIS7. When the code hits the last line above, it throws an Access Denied exception. The serverName variable is "localhost". The account I am logged in with is an adminstrator account. I have attempted to add II6 Metabase Compatability. Ive tried adding write permissions on the wwwroot directory to IIS_IUSRS. No change. At this point I'm stumped.

Any thoughts or suggestions?

09-15-2008, 9:13 PM In reply to

mukhtard
Joined on 07-07-2008, 9:13 PM
Redmond, WA
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Re: Access Denied

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What identity is the code running as?
Can you try the overload of the DirectoryEntry constructor that takes a username and password?

Thanks,
Mukhtar Desai
IIS Performance Team

09-17-2008, 11:13 AM In reply to

gsullivan
Joined on 09-15-2008, 3:47 PM
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Well, it seems that our IT guy was able to make the problem go away by re-configuring IIS 7, but I haven't been able to divine exactly what he changed that made it work. I will report back when I find out. The good news is that our code now runs with IIS 7 without modification. I am finding it strange that even though an account may be an administrator on a Win2008 box, there are still a lot of things off limits.

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