XFOR: Changing the Home Virtual Root to a New Empty Directory
Article ID: 159900
Article Last Modified on 9/30/2003
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Commercial Internet System 1.0 Service Pack 2
This article was previously published under Q159900
SYMPTOMS
The following problem occurs if you change the home virtual root on the
directories page to a directory that exists but is empty, and start the
service. The service starts successfully, but it deletes from the active
list any newsgroups that require special handling because they contain
Windows NT reserved words (comp.unix.aux, comp.lang.icon, and so forth).
The client will be able to list active, but will be unable to execute a
group command against any newsgroup. The user will receive error 502
Access Denied, as follows:
200 NNTP Service Microsoft Internet Services 5.00.7460 Version:
5.0.0.7460 Posting Allowed
list active comp.unix.a*
215 list of newsgroups follow
comp.unix.admin 36 1 y
comp.unix.advocacy 32 1 y
comp.unix.aix 56 1 y
comp.unix.amiga 3 1 y
.
group comp.unix.aix
502 Access Denied.
WORKAROUND
Do not change the home virtual root on the directories page.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Commercial Internet System
(MCIS) Internet News Server version 1.0.
Keywords: KB159900