>Thanks Keith
>
>I may have to go that route. Meanwhile, I have checked WMI, COM+, DTC and Machine Debug Manager. They are all running. Are there other items I can check?
>

Yes,

Check to see that .NET has been registered in IIS by opening the IIS Management snap-in, properties of the default web site, application configuration, file types and see if things like .ASPX, .ASMX are mapped to the .NET framework 1.1 (you don't have to check each file type, if one is mapped, they all are).

Most likely the problem is a faulty installation. Have you checked the System and Application event logs? Usually .NET will make an entry when a service-related error occurrs.

>>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.
>>>
>>>This server is actually a development environment we can access remotely to test and develop.
>>>
>>>The installation never setup an ASPNET account and I am having some problems I suspect may be related to this.
>>>
>>>How can do I add an ASPNET account, setup the rights properly everywhere then setup the ASP.NET worker process to use it?
>>>
>>>One of the problems encountered is "Error while trying to run project: Unable to start debugging on the web server. Catastrophic failure"
>>>
>>>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 ?????
>>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>TIA
>>>Charles Richard