Thanks. It was a few of these and some other untold truths by the Net Admin. Get a rope!

__Stephen

>>Anybody have a handle to security on this POS?
>>
>>I have an intranet site that 1/2 of the pages fire and the other half (new
>>ones) don't. Starting to get really cranky here.
>>
>>So Q. is what setting in IIS management do I set to allow compiles of my
>>ASP.NET pages. Some of the errors come back where you think the compiled
>>file is read only.
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>>Yes all these pages run fine on my development laptop.
>
>Most likely you have a permission problem with the ASPNet and IUSR_ user...
>
>Security in Windows Server works a little differently than with Win2k I've found. I've had problems with the built-in system account rights in some places where in addition to these accounts the USers group was required to get things to run properly.
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>Also, make absolutely sure you have virtuals created for each of your apps... the error message that comes back if you don't leads you to think it's a completely different problem.
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>One more thing I saw is that ASPNET account needs rights on the system root too in order for the diskwatcher components required for asp.net's file change detection...
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>Unfortunately I don't have a list of hard and fast rules - but these are the things I ran into on both machines I installed on (my laptopo and my Web site).
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>+++ Rick ---