Win Server 2003 Config problem

[Ron L]

I have an application that I am working on with 2 other developers. The
applciation uses Remoting for our calls to SQL Server. We have been
developing and testing against our development machines (win XP), and
remoting is working fine, but yesterday we attempted to install our
application on our shared server and we keep getting 401 - Not Authorized
errors whenever a remoting call is made. To get the application to the
server, we got all the files from Source Safe to the server, and built the
application locally (on the server). This created the directory we needed
on the server's web site. I had to manually set the directory to be its own
application (to mimic the setup Visual Studio had automatically created on
our development machines).

In addition to the 401 error we are getting when we access the remoting
classes programmaticall y, we also get an error page if we try to browse to
the WSDL.

Our Web.Config has the following Channels definitions:
<channels>
<identity impersonate="tr ue" />
<channel ref="http" useDefaultCrede ntials="true">
<clientProvider s>
<formatter ref="binary" />
</clientProviders >
</channel>
</channels>

and our code includes the credentials in the channel properties:
_commonMdl =
CType(Activator .GetObject(GetT ype(ModelInterf ace.ICommonMode l), _serverURL &
_
"CommonModel.re m"),
ModelInterface. ICommonModel)
_commonChannelP rops =
ChannelServices .GetChannelSink Properties(_com monMdl)
_commonChannelP rops("credentia ls") = CredentialCache .DefaultCredent ials

I assume that, since the code works on the XP development machines, the
problem must be a configuration problem with the Win2k3 server/IIS6. Can
anyone point me to where the problem may be? I have been searching MS and
Google for 2 days without finding anything that appears to be relevant.

TIA
Ron L

[Clemens Reijnen]

The diference between iis on xp and iis on win2k3 is the application pool
part on win2k3, I think you have to trie to do something with that... take a
look under which apppool your app is running and take a look at the account
of that application pool. This account must have "run as service" and "run
as batch job" privilege...
Greets Clemens, still a verry strange way to deploy a application ;-)
"Ron L" <ro**@bogus.Add ress.com> wrote in message
news:uI******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP14.phx.gbl...

I have an application that I am working on with 2 other developers. The
applciation uses Remoting for our calls to SQL Server. We have been
developing and testing against our development machines (win XP), and
remoting is working fine, but yesterday we attempted to install our
application on our shared server and we keep getting 401 - Not Authorized
errors whenever a remoting call is made. To get the application to the
server, we got all the files from Source Safe to the server, and built the
application locally (on the server). This created the directory we needed
on the server's web site. I had to manually set the directory to be its
own application (to mimic the setup Visual Studio had automatically created
on our development machines).

In addition to the 401 error we are getting when we access the remoting
classes programmaticall y, we also get an error page if we try to browse to
the WSDL.

Our Web.Config has the following Channels definitions:
<channels>
<identity impersonate="tr ue" />
<channel ref="http" useDefaultCrede ntials="true">
<clientProvider s>
<formatter ref="binary" />
</clientProviders >
</channel>
</channels>

and our code includes the credentials in the channel properties:
_commonMdl =
CType(Activator .GetObject(GetT ype(ModelInterf ace.ICommonMode l), _serverURL
& _
"CommonModel.re m"),
ModelInterface. ICommonModel)
_commonChannelP rops =
ChannelServices .GetChannelSink Properties(_com monMdl)
_commonChannelP rops("credentia ls") = CredentialCache .DefaultCredent ials

I assume that, since the code works on the XP development machines, the
problem must be a configuration problem with the Win2k3 server/IIS6. Can
anyone point me to where the problem may be? I have been searching MS and
Google for 2 days without finding anything that appears to be relevant.

TIA
Ron L

[Ron L]

Clemens

Thank you for the response. We are running as the DefaultAppPool, which is
set to use the NetworkService login. We tried changing the login to
Administrator, which has those rights explicitly granted, but got the same
results - Not Authorized. Do you have any other thoughts?

Ron L
"Clemens Reijnen" <Cl************ @hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:uh******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP09.phx.gbl...

The diference between iis on xp and iis on win2k3 is the application pool
part on win2k3, I think you have to trie to do something with that... take
a look under which apppool your app is running and take a look at the
account of that application pool. This account must have "run as service"
and "run as batch job" privilege...
Greets Clemens, still a verry strange way to deploy a application ;-)
"Ron L" <ro**@bogus.Add ress.com> wrote in message
news:uI******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP14.phx.gbl...

I have an application that I am working on with 2 other developers. The
applciation uses Remoting for our calls to SQL Server. We have been
developing and testing against our development machines (win XP), and
remoting is working fine, but yesterday we attempted to install our
application on our shared server and we keep getting 401 - Not Authorized
errors whenever a remoting call is made. To get the application to the
server, we got all the files from Source Safe to the server, and built the
application locally (on the server). This created the directory we needed
on the server's web site. I had to manually set the directory to be its
own application (to mimic the setup Visual Studio had automatically
created on our development machines).

In addition to the 401 error we are getting when we access the remoting
classes programmaticall y, we also get an error page if we try to browse
to the WSDL.

Our Web.Config has the following Channels definitions:
<channels>
<identity impersonate="tr ue" />
<channel ref="http" useDefaultCrede ntials="true">
<clientProvider s>
<formatter ref="binary" />
</clientProviders >
</channel>
</channels>

and our code includes the credentials in the channel properties:
_commonMdl =
CType(Activator .GetObject(GetT ype(ModelInterf ace.ICommonMode l),
_serverURL & _
"CommonModel.re m"),
ModelInterface. ICommonModel)
_commonChannelP rops =
ChannelServices .GetChannelSink Properties(_com monMdl)
_commonChannelP rops("credentia ls") = CredentialCache .DefaultCredent ials

I assume that, since the code works on the XP development machines, the
problem must be a configuration problem with the Win2k3 server/IIS6. Can
anyone point me to where the problem may be? I have been searching MS
and Google for 2 days without finding anything that appears to be
relevant.

TIA
Ron L

[m.posseth]

hmmm well this sounds verry strange

I am a enterprise developer and i even code my remoting projects on windows
2003 server 64 bit ,,, never had anny problems with it i did not have to
performe anny changes to my standard windows 2003 installation to get my
remoting projects running ...
to get a remoting project running on IIS you need the following

1 You must create a virtual directory
2 You must use the http channel ( you are free to use the binarry
formatter )
3 You must use singlecall objects
4 you may not specify a port ( IIS manager handless this , typicly port
80 )
5 the object URI must end with .rem or soap

Configuring a remote object under IIS should be simple all you need to do is
copying your remote assembly to the \Bin subdirectory of a virtual
directory on the server , alternatively
you can place it in the GAC then you need to create a configuarion file for
the web application and advantage for this aproach is that the remote object
also gains the ability to use IIS authentication features ( like SSL ) and
the builtin ASP.net objects .

in both situations the virtual directory name automaticly becomes the
application name

so virtual directory

http://localhost/asphost

becomes the full uri for your object

http://localhost/asphost/yourremoteobject.rem

well i hope this helps in solving your problem

regards

Happy coding :-)

Michel Posseth [MCP]


"Ron L" <ro**@bogus.Add ress.com> wrote in message
news:uK******** ********@TK2MSF TNGP12.phx.gbl. ..

Clemens

Thank you for the response. We are running as the DefaultAppPool, which
is set to use the NetworkService login. We tried changing the login to
Administrator, which has those rights explicitly granted, but got the same
results - Not Authorized. Do you have any other thoughts?

Ron L
"Clemens Reijnen" <Cl************ @hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:uh******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP09.phx.gbl...

The diference between iis on xp and iis on win2k3 is the application pool
part on win2k3, I think you have to trie to do something with that...
take a look under which apppool your app is running and take a look at
the account of that application pool. This account must have "run as
service" and "run as batch job" privilege...
Greets Clemens, still a verry strange way to deploy a application ;-)
"Ron L" <ro**@bogus.Add ress.com> wrote in message
news:uI******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP14.phx.gbl...

I have an application that I am working on with 2 other developers. The
applciatio n uses Remoting for our calls to SQL Server. We have been
developing and testing against our development machines (win XP), and
remoting is working fine, but yesterday we attempted to install our
applicatio n on our shared server and we keep getting 401 - Not Authorized
errors whenever a remoting call is made. To get the application to the
server, we got all the files from Source Safe to the server, and built
the application locally (on the server). This created the directory we
needed on the server's web site. I had to manually set the directory to
be its own application (to mimic the setup Visual Studio had
automaticall y created on our development machines).

In addition to the 401 error we are getting when we access the remoting
classes programmaticall y, we also get an error page if we try to browse
to the WSDL.

Our Web.Config has the following Channels definitions:
<channels>
<identity impersonate="tr ue" />
<channel ref="http" useDefaultCrede ntials="true">
<clientProvider s>
<formatter ref="binary" />
</clientProviders >
</channel>
</channels>

and our code includes the credentials in the channel properties:
_commonMdl =
CType(Activator .GetObject(GetT ype(ModelInterf ace.ICommonMode l),
_serverURL & _
"CommonModel.re m"),
ModelInterface. ICommonModel)
_commonChannelP rops =
ChannelServices .GetChannelSink Properties(_com monMdl)
_commonChannelP rops("credentia ls") =
CredentialCache .DefaultCredent ials

I assume that, since the code works on the XP development machines, the
problem must be a configuration problem with the Win2k3 server/IIS6.
Can anyone point me to where the problem may be? I have been searching
MS and Google for 2 days without finding anything that appears to be
relevant.

TIA
Ron L