PRB: Required Permissions on Commerce Directories
Article ID: 175121
Article Last Modified on 9/30/2003
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Commerce Server 2.0
This article was previously published under Q175121
SYMPTOMS
Errors may occur if non-administrative users have access to certain
folders
within Commerce Server. For example, if full control is given to the Host
Administrator folder for the Everyone group and the Allow Anonymous option
is selected in Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS), a list of
stores will not be displayed in the Host Administrator and the Foundation
Wizard. Furthermore, the Copy Store Wizard will give the following error:
Couldn't get installed stores list. Access is denied.
CAUSE
The Commerce Server Administrator objects require administrative
permissions in order to run some of the objects' methods. When the
anonymous user has access to the files and the Allow Anonymous option is
selected in IIS, the files are viewed under the context of the anonymous
user. Unless this user has administrative permissions, errors will occur.
WORKAROUND
For the Host Administrator, Store Wizard, and Pipeline Editor to work
properly, you must access the pages as an administrator. If the Allow
Anonymous option is selected in IIS, make sure that the anonymous user
does
not have permissions to the files in the Host Administrator folder or the
Pipeline Configuration folder. This forces Windows NT Challenge/Response
or
Basic (Clear Text) authentication, thereby allowing an administrative user
to be logged on.
NOTE: The anonymous user must have read permission to all Global.asa
files.
Additional query words: admin execute
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