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[Ken]

Hello all.

I hope someone can help me here. I'm losing more hair by the moment trying to fix this.

My Win2K server was running fine until one day all the cgi-bin virtual directories stopped working. I checked all permissions, and everything is in place. But whenever I try to execute dlls, perl scripts, or exes, I get the http 401.3 error. I've checked the ACLs, and everything looks good. I've even gone to the extent of allowing Full Control to the browser and IUSR_ and even Everyone, but the Login Screen always comes up. I'm stumped here. Anyone have any ideas or clues?

[MattF]

Make sure you have the IIS running under a suitable user eg. ISR_USER1, and that the this user has at least read permission of that directory.

You then have to make sure they have read permission of winnt\system32 so IIS can access the .dlls neccessary for ASP compilation. And if you run perl then on c:\perl as well.