"David Veeneman" <da****@nospam.com (domain is my last name)> said:
I had to reformat my Windows XP Professional development machine yesterday
and reinstall everything, including IIS and VS 2005. I thought I had worked
out the procedure to get ASP.NET up and running on a local machine, but I am
getting this error when I try to open a web app on the local IIS
installation: "Failed to access IIS metabase".
Reformatting seems a bit extreme...
But to try and answer your question,
You have to explicitly assign read rights to the directory for the
ASP.NET local machine user. This seems to occur primarily when the
site is a virtual directory not contained within the INETPUB folder.
ASP.NET also has to have access to the root of the site, so that it
can access global.asax.
FWIW,
Greg G.