Re: ASPNET can't write in event log on win XP

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From: Kevin Spencer (kevin_at_DIESPAMMERSDIEtakempis.com)
Date: 01/18/05 

Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 09:13:14 -0500

> I didn't have this problem on windows 2000. But since I'm on Win XP now, I
> have to solve this. I set full control to everyone on every drive of my
> computer and it still not working...

You might want to undo that. Kind of dodgy in terms of security.

Changing file and folder permissions isn't going to help anything. You need
to change permissions for the Event Log. That's not a drive, and it's not a
folder. See the following article (which I Googled) to find out how:

http://searchvb.techtarget.com/vsnetTip/1,293823,sid8_gci887779_tax293033,00.html 

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HTH,
Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
.Net Developer
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"Stephane" <Stephane@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:A55975E2-6C98-47FB-B07C-E99B14421E24@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> I'm sorry, this question is also posted in dotnet.framework, I don't know 
> in
> which newsgroup my question belongs to...
>
> I'm trying to write in the event log and it looks like it's any of my
> applications which are called by ASP.NET that are having trouble with 
> event
> log. Here's the
> error:
>
> System.InvalidOperationException: Cannot open log for source {0}. You may
> not have write access. ---> System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: Access 
> is
> denied
>
> I didn't have this problem on windows 2000. But since I'm on Win XP now, I
> have to solve this.  I set full control to everyone on every drive of my
> computer and it still not working...
>
> Any idea of how to set permissions so ASPNET can write in event log in Win 
> Xp?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steph
>
>

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