RE: VS.NET, VB6 and MSDN

From: Darwin Abustan[MSFT] (darwina_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/22/04 

Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 02:17:33 GMT

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>I have a really annoying problem on 3 machines (one of which is a fresh
>install) all of which I develop without administrator privileges. Two of
>the machines have VB6 as well as VS.NET 2003, along with the MSDN Library
>(and this occurs with Jan 2004 and Oct 2003.)
>
>Sometimes when browsing the MSDN docs, a requester pops up stating that
>VS.NET is preparing to install; a similar thing happens when opening VB6 and
>building a deployment package in VS.NET. Each time, the error is the same,
>and you have to cancel the requester about three times per go to continue.
>
> "Error 1926. Could not set file security for file
> 'c:\inetpub\wwwroot'. Error 80070005. Verify that you
> have sufficient privileges to modify security permissions
> for this file."
>
>Obviously, security can't be changed since I have no admin privs on that
>folder! So, I have 2 questions:
>1) What is happening here? Why does VB6, MSDN and VS.NET try to modify the
>privileges on the wwwroot folder when I'm not doing anything remotely
>related to web development,
>2) How do I fix this, please?

Check the properties of the c:\inetpub\wwwroot folder. Administrators and System should have Full Control of this folder.

Otherwise, you may find out exactly what what resources you need permissions to if you run filemon and even regmon from www.sysinternals.com.

1) Run filemon and regmon while reproducing the error message
2) Save the outputs to a log file.
3) Use Excel to open the resulting log files you saved from filemon and regmon
4) Filter to see what registry entries or files you are being denied access to
5) Forward the information to the administrator of the machine and have your account given rights to the appropriate resources.

Darwin Abustan
Support Engineer

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

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