Thank you Don.

I'll look into it.



>I ran into this for a client... Their server had the IIS set to .Net 1.1. I since rebuilt a project under .Net 2 and got a similar message... To Fix, I Googled the System.web.... portion and found (which can't find again), but here's what I had to do...
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>Open IIS.
>Expand treeview to default website... Right-click - properties.
>Click on the ASP.NET tab of pageframe. Change the drop-down for ASP.Net version from 1.1 to 2.0.
>Save and exit.
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>Then, just for grins, I did a DOS prompt and
>net stop w3svc
>net start w3svc
>to allow the service to be cleared and restarted... The project ran fine after that.
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>>I'm getting the following error message.
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>>System.Web.Hosting.HostingEnvironmentException: Failed to access IIS metabase. The
>>process account used to run ASP.NET must have read access to the IIS metabase (e.g.
>>IIS://servername/W3SVC). For information on modifying metabase permissions, please see
>> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=267904.
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>>I tried to follow the instruction found on the link with no success.
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>>Has anyone worked with metaacl? If so, any hint is very much appreciated?
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>>TIA