IIS Woes

[Jim Campbell]

I just got a new computer, preinstalled Windows XP Home Edition, which
doesn't include IIS. If I went to Win2K, I'd be losing some software
that the manufacturer bundled in with it.

So, I went on the Internet and saw that others have gotten IIS to run
successfully under XP Home, and decided to try. The installation,
according to these directions, seemed to work beautifully:

http://www.15seconds.com/issue/020118.htm

I did this using the Win2K discs and WinXP directories. Further, the
ASP.NET installation also went well.

Now, whenever I try to use IIS by just browsing to http://localhost, I
get the following message:

The specified module could not be found.

I am looking in the Event Viewer, and see the following message, under
"Services":

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: W3SVC
Event Category: None
Event ID: 100
Date: 7/18/2004
Time: 10:59:33 PM
User: N/A
Computer: CAMPBELL-NORTH
Description:
The server was unable to logon the Windows NT account
'IUSR_CAMPBELL-NORTH' due to the following error: The specified module
could not be found. The data is the error code.
For additional information specific to this message please visit the
Microsoft Online Support site located at:
http://www.microsoft.com/contentredirect.asp.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 7e 00 00 00

In other words, the service "W3SVC" failed here.

Do you know of anything I can do to debug this further?

I am running IIS 5.0.

When I try to make a Web project, I get the following box, which backs
up my issue here:

The Web server reported the following error when attempting to
create or open the Web project located at the following URL:
'http://localhost/Sample', 'HTTP/1.1 500 Server Error'.

Any clues, anyone?

- Jim

 

[Jim Campbell]

I just found out that if I turn off the anonymous access to the web
site, everything works. In other words, do I have to do something
different to allow anonymous users to access my web site?

- Jim

 

[Mike Smith]

do u have an anonymous user account created on the machine itself ?
'IUSR_CAMPBELL-NORTH' ? thats what the anoymous user will be loged on as
....
i guess cause u "hacked" the iis onto xp home , XP wouldnt create this
account by itself ?

 

[Lau Lei Cheong]

Yes, just create the account and add it to the "Guests" group(it'll raise
security issue if you set it to normal "Users" group)

 

[Jim Campbell]

I had tried adding the "IUSR_CAMPBELL-NORTH" user in the "User Accounts"
screen, but the system complained there already was such a user, even
though there was no such user listed. I imagine that screen shows only
login users. Is there any way to show the "non-login" users and
associated permissions?

- Jim

 

[Mike Smith]

not sure on that on win XP home.. but in XP Pro under computer management u
can see all users created.. well since it said that the user was already
created, did u check that your inetpub\wwwroot folder (i.e Localhost) has
permission for the IUSR_CAMPBELL-NORTH account to access it ?

could that be why when u remove anonymous access the system lets u see
localhost ?

 

[Lau Lei Cheong]

Try check in the "Local Security Policy Editor" to see if
"IUSR_CAMPBELL-NORTH" appears in the following categories:
1) Access this computer from the network
2) Adjust memory quota for a process
3) Login as a batch job
4) Replace a process level token