Charles,

There's more than problems with the ASPNET user account here. I suggest installing the .NET framework from the web, then installing VS.NET 2003. Once that is done, make sure all of the required services have started. WMI, COM+, DTC, and Machine Debug Manager are all neccessary to run .NET.

>I have installed VS.NET 2003 (Framework 1.1.4322 SP1) on a Windows 2000 server setup with Active Directory and running Terminal Server.
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>This server is actually a development environment we can access remotely to test and develop.
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>The installation never setup an ASPNET account and I am having some problems I suspect may be related to this.
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>How can do I add an ASPNET account, setup the rights properly everywhere then setup the ASP.NET worker process to use it?
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>One of the problems encountered is "Error while trying to run project: Unable to start debugging on the web server. Catastrophic failure"
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>This is the exact wording of the message.
>All this works on the same project on a workstation.
>I have checked IIS settings and project settings against the workstation setup, looked for anything which was workstation specific, I can access the tables, the application seems to work fine when accessed from IE ?????
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>Another problem was needing to add the IWAM_ account to the tables because IUSR_ wasn't being used to access them in windows authentication mode.
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>TIA
>Charles Richard