Access denied to Virtual Directories located outside of wwwroot

[GoodOmens]

I recently installed IIS 5.1 on a Windows XP SP2 computer. Everything worked fine. I then installed ASP.NET and had a number of problems which forced me to fix the DCOM and reinstall. Finally ASP.NET works and IIS works, with one exception. When I create a Virtual Directory through IIS in a location outside of

http://wwwroot

I receive a 401.3 error ("You are not authorized to view this page"), but a virtual directory created in c:\inetpub\

http://wwwroot

works perfectly (ie, http:\\localhost\test located at c:\Test will get an access denied error but http:\\localhost\test located in

http://wwwroot).

I can force the virtual directory outside of

http://wwwroot

to work by manually the IUSR user to the directory through windows but I did not have to do this before I tried to get ASP.NET working. Any idea what might have been reconfigured?

Thanks!

Melissa

 

[WhoKilledKenny]

Check out this response by Kozimoto from another post. May be the info you are looking for...
thread41-1345203

 

[Kozimoto]

That was a pretty long winded post. David Wang has an excellent article which outlines how to diagnose 401.X errors located at:

http://blogs.msdn.com/david.wang/archive/2005/07/14/HOWTO_Diagnose_IIS_401_Access_Denied.aspx

Also, fire-up authdiag.exe located at:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...77-4a21-4066-bd22-b931f7572e9a&DisplayLang=en