getting System.ServiceModel.AddressAccessDeniedException on Vista for WCF service

Question

We have an application that starts a WCF server and the app reads from it.

It starts and can be read fine on all Windows XP machines.

On our Vista machine, however, we get:

System.ServiceModel.AddressAccessDeniedException
"The process has no rights to this namespace."
System.Net.HttpListenerException

The URL is at localhost:

http://localhost:8731/ABC.Testing.Business.Core/SecurityService/?wsdl

The error message sent us here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733768.aspx

And we did what it said:

netsh http add urlacl url=... user=...

which changed the rights but the WCF service still cannot start on Vista.

Does anyone have any experience with this that could move us forward? Thanks.

Answer 1

I've had similar problems on Vista, which I haven't figured out yet. What error is it throwing now that you have run that netsh command? Have you tried giving that user local administrator privileges?

Answer 2

Hi Edward, try reading through this blog post and see if it helps.

http://blogs.msdn.com/paulwh/archive/2007/05/04/addressaccessdeniedexception-http-could-not-register-url-http-8080.aspx