"WolfyUK" <webmaster@first-title.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1164818592.306172.76850@80g2000cwy.googlegroups.com...
> Hello,
>
> I have just installed FTP on IIS 6.0 (Windows 2003) and attempted to
> create a new FTP Site. I point the new FTP Site to an existing Web
> Site's physical root directory, apply the required IP address/port (21)
> and choose not to use FTP User Isolation. When attempting to start the
> new FTP Site, however, the following message is displayed:
>
> Unexpected error 0x800cc801 occurred
>
> There are no further error messages and nothing is logged in the
> server's Event Log.
>
> I have tried removing and re-adding the FTP Site and apart from the
> error above, occasionally I get a message saying that the IP address
> and TCP port configuration is conflicting with an existing Site. I try
> changing the combination and this message goes away, but the
> 'unexpected' one above re-arises. I have tried restarting IIS to
> attempt to clear out the possible conflict after removing a Site but
> this makes no difference. A server reboot has also had little effect.
>
> It looks like the 0x800cc801 error is something to do with the metabase
> configuration, but I don't know how to investigate this further.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas on this one?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marc
>

<qbern...@hotmail.com.discuss> wrote:
> I have not seen such error on IIS6 before.
> How many ftp sites you got? have you try reinstall the ftp component from
> add/remove windows components?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Bernard Cheah