windows-server-2003

XML Deserialization Permissions Error

I'm trying to use VS 2008 t publish a website to a virtual on my computer. The website runs just fine in VS2008 while debugging, but when I publish it, I'm getting the following error. Access to the path 'C:\dummy.xml' is denied. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Pl...

IIS File Permissions

Hello all, I have an app which I'm trying to restrict permissions to while I'm doing maintenance. I use windows file permissions and remove access to the dll file the app runs from for all non admin accounts, ie: cacls "%DLL_LOC%" /E /R BUILTIN\Users and then I recycle the application pool (which was working on my dev environment to...

Applet loading problem with Win2003 Terminal Server

Applet loading seem to fail with JAVA 1.6 to error java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) I believe this is related to limited security of user accounts under Win2003. Any ideas? The site is trusted. It works with ADMINISTRAT...

software fails to write to C: with Win2003 limited user "out of disk space"

software fails to write to profile folder stored in C: with Win2003 limited user due "out of disk space" When I look with Admin rights, there is plenty of space on C: drive When I go with limited to user to cmd.exe and say dir c:/ , its 0 bytes free ...

Ensure that ASP.NET 3.5 Framework is installed on Windows Server 2003 64-bit

I'm developing in 32-bit XP and deploying to a Win2k3 64-bit server set to run in 32-bit mode. How do I install 3.5 framework components on the Win2k3 server in this scenario? I see that there are new charting controls and an SP1 for ASP.NET 3.5 How do I get these on the server that is running in 32-bit mode in IIS? ...

Windows CE date-time synchronization with Windows Server 2003.

My application (compact framework) works on Windows CE. The "cold boot" of the device resets the systemtime. Is there any way to synchronize systemtime with Windows Server 2003 (IIS) or using a merge replication on SQL Server 2000. I have a counted column in one of the datatables which counts current time but this row is somehow impossi...

Can't access env vars from ANT after OS upgrade

A server was upgraded from Windows 2000 to Windows 2003 and now I can't access environment variables from Ant build scripts. I can still access them fine from a command line, but ${env.JAVA_HOME} for instance fails. How can I fix this without rewriting ~100 build scripts that work on all other servers to be customized for this server? ...

Autostart a batch file on Windows

Hi, I want to create a script that will run whenever a server is turned on to do basic things like create a directory and copy a binary from an FTP server to it. I need it to run before a user logs in, as soon as the server is turned on. This will be deployed on my EC2 windows servers. Checking around (http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/t...

Windows Media Server Streaming from database

Is it possible to somehow set up WMS to stream the content from a database only using Windows Server 2003 Standard edition? I know it can be done using custom-plugin data source but that is only enabled with Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition. ...

Issues with IIS 6.0 on fresh Server 2003 SP2 install

Unfortunately I don't have a lot of technical information to give you but I will give as thorough a description as I can. I have done a fresh install of Windows Server 2003 Enterprise (SP1). Performed all the updates including SP2 and installed McAfee Enterprise 8.7. Once I've completed doing this I open up the Windows Components instal...

Why won't my WinForms app compiled for "x86" exit on an "x64" machine when running outside "C:\Program Files (x86)"?

We have a WinForms app that runs fine on x86, but has many third-party components that make win32 calls. To get the apps to run on x64, I now compile for the x86 platform. Our habit has been to install our thick-client outside the system partition on servers, so we installed in "F:\Program Files (x86)" yesterday on a Win2003 x64 server. ...

No clue.. Overflow, Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a0006'

I'm receiving suddenly this error on a Win2003 Server Web Application: Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a0006' Overflow: 'Appname' A bunch of updates where performed on this server but I have rolled them back all. The page is old ASP code and if i run file monitor utility it will show the BUFFER OVERFLOW when it hits a GIF. Any...

Starting a windows service fails with error 1053

I have a windows service that is failing to start, giving an error "Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion". Running the service in my debugger works fine, and if I double click on the the service .exe on the remote machine a console window pops up and continues to run without proble...

Should DFS be used to sync wwwroot?

I'm wondering if it's a good idea to use DFS to sync content across a web farm? Does anyone have any experience of this? We've used Robocopy in the past but found it a little patchy and clunky. Essentially we want to avoid having to make ten changes to content each time one file changes (this happens a lot since our site is old and usues...

Windows command to get service status?

I need to know the status of a service at the end of my batch script which restarts services using "net stop thingie" and "net start thingie". In my most favorite ideal world, I would like to e-mail the state to myself, to read on cold winter nights, to reassure myself with the warmth and comfort of a server that I know is running right...

Connecting to MySQL from other machines

I have MySQL installed on a Windows 2003 server on our domain. I cannot connect to it from other machines on the domain. I open up the MySQL Administrator panel and try to change the server name from localhost to the machine name it does not recognize it. I have tried fully qualifying the name also. Any ideas what I need to change? ...

What might be causing the"The client disconnected" ASP.NET exception?

My .NET 3.5 application sporadically throws the following exception System.Web exception: The client disconnected Any ideas why this exception is occurring? My application is running on a load balanced Windows Server 2003 IIS 6.0 server. ...

Basic apache server, mapping 127.0.0.1, to 10.0.0.7:8000

I'm working on this project where the client has a virtual server setup. I installed apache and such and got everything working fine on localhost. But in order for it to show up on the internets, the people that run this virtual server needs me to: "If you try and reach 10.0.0.7:8000 you do not come to the index page but if you do loca...

IIS 6.0 Debugging methods

I need some help from you about debugging high CPU usage (w3wp.exe) on server (Windows Server 2003 R2). I used debugdiag to anaylze but the problem is that this piece of software is not detecting any kind of problem. Have you ever met any problem with high CPU usage on w3wp.exe (100% all the time)? Have you got any tutorial how to debu...

Delphi 7: Any differences between compiling under Win XP or Windows Server 2003?

Hi all, I have a legacy application to maintain. Currently, releases are built from one particular developper workstation, that is a bad, bad habit. I asked for a virtualized build server to automate the build from one centralized environment. The only problem is that the server they gave me run with windows server 2003, and they will ...