In Machine.config (or if you're using Win3k - in the Application Pool Settings of the IIS virtual that hosts your app) you can configure a user name that your app runs under.

Check to see that this account is still valid and that the password is correct.

It sounds like somebody may have been messing with the accounts on the machine and that may have changed a password or had an account expire or get removed.


+++ Rick ---

>Hi! All,
>
>May be I am at wrong place, but some-how my question related to this field I am putting it here.
>
>I am working with WindowsXP with IIS 5 and VS.NET 2002.
>Few days ago I have created a webservice. At the time of creation I have used it in windows client and it was working properly. But, now(approx 1 week later) I am not able to use those web services. Even when I try to refresh the webreference it gives an error. When I tried to solve this error, I found two error in Windows Application Log. Those errors are,
>
>****************************************************************************************
>Event Category: None
>Event ID: 1007
>Date: 11/4/2003
>Time: 3:59:37 PM
>User: N/A
>Computer: RSLSERVER
>Description:
>aspnet_wp.exe could not be launched because the username and/or password supplied in the processModel section of the config file are invalid.
>
>For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
>
>
>AND THE SECOND ERROR IS,
>
>Event Type: Error
>Event Source: ASP.NET 1.0.3705.0
>Event Category: None
>Event ID: 1082
>Date: 11/4/2003
>Time: 3:59:06 PM
>User: N/A
>Computer: RSLSERVER
>Description:
>aspnet_wp.exe could not be started. HRESULT for the failure: 80004005
>
>For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
>
>****************************************************************************************
>
>How to solve these errors? I tried everything like enabling user account etc. but still the error is there? Is there any possiblity that someone may have made changes in Security Policy or something like that?
>
>The URL is useless.
>
>Any help or suggestion?