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• 09-24-2008, 9:11 PM

  sparco87 Joined on 08-07-2007, 6:47 PM Posts 2

  Cannot access my MS access database with IIS7 Reply Contact Hey everyone... I am playing around with II7 and I added a website I have been doing in .net2.0 to the IIS. When I run this site from Visual Studio it works fine. When I try to run the site from IIS7 I get an error saying "Object Reference not set to an instance of an object" this error occurs when I try to read from my database. The only thing I can figure is I am not gaining access to the database. How do I fix this? Thanks a ton for your help

• 09-27-2008, 11:25 PM

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  steve schofield Joined on 06-10-2002, 4:54 PM MI Posts 2,581

  Re: Cannot access my MS access database with IIS7 Reply Contact The error is more related to code than connecting to a database.  If you don't think it's connecting to your database, you would see errors for permissions.  You can enable auditing in the local security policy,  audit failures and see if there is an error in the security event log.  Also, Process monitor from sysinternals can help detect issues related to folder / file security.  Steve Schofield Windows Server MVP - IIS http://weblogs.asp.net/steveschofield http://www.IISLogs.com Log archival solution Install, Configure, Forget

• 09-28-2008, 12:42 PM

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  sparco87 Joined on 08-07-2007, 6:47 PM Posts 2	Re: Cannot access my MS access database with IIS7 Reply Contact I don't think it is an error with the code... If I run it from Visual Studio 2005 everything works fine. I have the MS access database in a folder inside my website called DB and my connection string points to that. If it was a code error I wouldn't be able to run it from Visual Studio I would think right?