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• 12-17-2008, 1:18 PM

  jimbo_jnr Joined on 08-19-2008, 7:33 AM Posts 21

  Component Services & IIS Permissions Reply Contact Hello, I have an IIS6.0, Classic ASP application that is having some difficulties as I do not understand about permission/access rights etc. I have created a COM+, Components Service Application from a dll. This component needs to be accessible to the IIS user. How do I set this up? Does anyone know what the identity should be for the Component and for the application pool? The site is running fine for me whilst on the server but is giving access right errors to others on the network trying to access it (the components). If I register the dlls through regsvr32 the site runs fine but this is not ideal. At the moment my identity for the component is: Inter Active Account- The current Logged on user The security account for the application pool is set to: Predefined: Network Service Any help appreciated. Thanks, Jim

• 12-18-2008, 9:19 AM

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  tomkmvp Joined on 03-20-2003, 6:27 AM Central NJ Posts 6,160	Re: Component Services & IIS Permissions Reply Contact What does the component do?  What is different about the other users? Tom Kaminski IIS MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ http://blogs.iis.net/tomkmvp/ http://www.linkedin.com/pub/8/690/408 http://www.bluesrepublic.org/

• 12-18-2008, 10:33 AM

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  jimbo_jnr Joined on 08-19-2008, 7:33 AM Posts 21

  Re: Component Services & IIS Permissions Reply Contact Hi Tom, The Component is used for database connectivity and executing all of the applications DB interaction. I do not know what is different about the other users except that they are accessing the site from network computers and I am accessing directly from the server whilst being logged in with an admin account. This is a strange problem as the other users are claiming that they now can access the site 99% of the time but receive '8000401a' type errors intermittently. Any time they have reported the error I have logged into the server and the site becomes available to them again without doing anything! We are leaving an administrator account logged into the server at all times now to see if that stops the intermittent access problems but this is a strange resolution if it works and is not a long term solution. Could it be that a non administrator is logging into the server at times and the Inter Active Account- The current Logged on user  identity of the component is not being made accessible as a result? Thanks

• 12-18-2008, 11:00 AM

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  Rovastar Joined on 03-13-2008, 2:00 PM London, UK Posts 1,744

  Re: Component Services & IIS Permissions Reply Contact Can't you check to see the login activety at the time if you suspect it is that. But why are you using current user logged on? That is not best practice - use a separate account for this an account no-one uses and never logs in directly to the machine. Is the COM stuff on the same physical machine as the web frontends or is it tiered? I would look for any other activity at that time. See what is occurring everything from network traffic and high loads and firewalls. It is likely to be linked to something else. http://www.iisportal.com

• 12-18-2008, 2:32 PM

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  tomkmvp Joined on 03-20-2003, 6:27 AM Central NJ Posts 6,160	Re: Component Services & IIS Permissions Reply Contact I would suggest creating a "service account" for use by the component and making sure that service account has rights ot the database. Tom Kaminski IIS MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ http://blogs.iis.net/tomkmvp/ http://www.linkedin.com/pub/8/690/408 http://www.bluesrepublic.org/

• 12-18-2008, 3:07 PM

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  Paul Lynch Joined on 05-24-2006, 9:41 AM UK Posts 1,224	Re: Component Services & IIS Permissions Reply Contact Hi, Does the application work at all if you are actually logged on to the web server with a sufficiently privileged account ? If so then it could possibly be this : COM+ server application that uses interactive user identity fails to load Regards,  Paul Lynch | www.iisadmin.co.uk

• 12-22-2008, 5:08 AM

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  jimbo_jnr Joined on 08-19-2008, 7:33 AM Posts 21

  Re: Component Services & IIS Permissions Reply Contact Hi, It appears that this is indeed the case. The Components seem to be only accessable when an administrator is logged into the server. Unfortunately I have been asked not to make any further changes to the system until the new year so I cannot play around with the components identity settings or create a new user account. I will update this post when I have made the changes. Thanks & Regards, Jim