"Gregory Grebennik" <grebennik@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Steve,
>
> I have the similar problem.
> Server1: Win2000, IIS 5.0, FP Ext 4.0.2.6513
> Server2: Win2000, IIS 5.0, FP Ext 4.0.2.7802
>
> Deployment Box: VS.2002, .NET 1.1
> User is in Administrators Group in all three machines. And has all
> permissions for local directory.
>
> I able to publish on Server1, although it doesn't have basic
> authentication.
> And I not able to copy project on Server2, although has the same
> settings as on Server1.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Greg Grebennik
>
> v-schang@online.microsoft.com (Steven Cheng[MSFT]) wrote in message
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> > Hi Brian,
> >
> > From your description, currently you encountered the following error:
> > ============
> > - Unable to open web project '/' - Server error
> > ============
> > when use VS.NET's copyproject command to copy a web project from you
> > development machine to a server machine, yes?
> >
> > Since you mentioned that you are using Windows 2000 server and Visual
> > Studio .Net 2003. Then what about the server's OS version and the IIS's
> > version? Generally speaking, this issue is likely caused by security
issue,
> > maybe permission problem. Would you please have a try on the following
> > items:
> > 1. Try copy the project to another position on the local machine(the
> > develop machine) to see whether this problem also occurs.
> >
> > 2. For general test, you can try the below steps:
> > 1) In the security for the folder where the application sits we went to
the
> > advanced tab and checked the following box:
> >
> > "Replace permission on all child objects with entries shown here that
apply
> > to all child objects"
> >
> > 2) This caused the aspnet permissions to propogate to all the files.
> >
> > 3) since you want to copy project to a remote machine, please try set
the
> > remote site's IIS directory security to use Basic Authentication
> >
> > #Note, it's better to use a powerful account(domain account to logon
when
> > copying project) which has enought permissions on both machine.
> >
> > If the above things not work or if you have any new findings, please
feel
> > free to post here. Thanks.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Steven Cheng
> > Microsoft Online Support
> >
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