Error Accessing SharePoint

A

Abhijeet

Hello Guru out there,
I am struggling with the following problem for a week but seem to go
nowhere. I would really appreciate some help.

Here is what I did…

1. I created a WSSadmin login and made it a part of Administrator's
group
2. Then I installed WSS on the machine which had SQL server already
installed.As we are not using Active Directory, choose to use the SQL
authentication.
3. WSS installed fine. During installation, I choose the default
Application Pool and created a new database for wss.
4. I create a new web site (wss) in IIS on port 90.
5. I extended the WSS website. While creating the extension, I created
a new Application Pool and used WSSadmin login as adminitrator.
6. Finally I went into the IIS and in "Directory security" tab for wss
site, I checked "Enable Anonymous flag" setting to disable
authentication. Even thought I had checked off "Enable Anonymous flag"
setting I left "Integrated windows authentication" in "Authenticated
Access" session checked

Now here is the problem….
When I access WSS and SharePoint admin site by using localhost from
the server everything is great. But as soon I use the machine name to
access the WSS or WSS admin site, the authentication box pops up.
If I uncheck the "Integrated windows authentication" setting in
"Authenticated Access", I get the following error for WSS site.

"Access denied. You do not have permission to perform this action or
access this resource.
Access requests are not enabled."

And following error for WSS Admin site

"Server Error in '/' Application.

Access is denied.
Description: An error occurred while accessing the resources required
to serve this request. The server may not be configured for access to
the requested URL.

Error message 401.2.: You do not have permission to view this
directory or page using the credentials you supplied. Contact the Web
server's administrator for help."


I am not sure if it a Sharepoint or IIS problem. What could I be doing
wrong ?

Please Help!!!
 
A

AndyW

You need to add the machine name into the trusted sites in
the IE security configuration.
 
B

Brian K - Project MVP

Abhijeet said:
Hello Guru out there,
I am struggling with the following problem for a week but seem to go
nowhere. I would really appreciate some help.

Here is what I did…

1. I created a WSSadmin login and made it a part of Administrator's
group
2. Then I installed WSS on the machine which had SQL server already
installed.As we are not using Active Directory, choose to use the SQL
authentication.
3. WSS installed fine. During installation, I choose the default
Application Pool and created a new database for wss.
4. I create a new web site (wss) in IIS on port 90.
5. I extended the WSS website. While creating the extension, I created
a new Application Pool and used WSSadmin login as adminitrator.
6. Finally I went into the IIS and in "Directory security" tab for wss
site, I checked "Enable Anonymous flag" setting to disable
authentication. Even thought I had checked off "Enable Anonymous flag"
setting I left "Integrated windows authentication" in "Authenticated
Access" session checked

Now here is the problem….
When I access WSS and SharePoint admin site by using localhost from
the server everything is great. But as soon I use the machine name to
access the WSS or WSS admin site, the authentication box pops up.
If I uncheck the "Integrated windows authentication" setting in
"Authenticated Access", I get the following error for WSS site.

"Access denied. You do not have permission to perform this action or
access this resource.
Access requests are not enabled."

And following error for WSS Admin site

"Server Error in '/' Application.

Access is denied.
Description: An error occurred while accessing the resources required
to serve this request. The server may not be configured for access to
the requested URL.

Error message 401.2.: You do not have permission to view this
directory or page using the credentials you supplied. Contact the Web
server's administrator for help."


I am not sure if it a Sharepoint or IIS problem. What could I be doing
wrong ?

Please Help!!!
Click to expand...

I had this same problem with users accessing the PUblic Documents site
and I had to go into the WSS Admin section of PWA then into the the
Manage websites area and Synchronize the Public Documents site.

--
___
Brian K
Project MVP
http://www.projectified.com

Project Server Consultant
http://www.quantumpm.com
 
N

Nico Oosthuysen

Hi Abhiheet,

The key words here are "not using Active Directory". Are you using a
Pre-Windows 2000 domain, or no domain at all?

WSS uses NT authentication. This means you have to create and use Windows
accounts for the users to be able to access the WSS sites - wheter it be
domain accounts or local accounts.

With domain accounts it is really very easy and seamless, but with local
accounts (if you do not have a domain enviroment), it does take some extra
admin. If you are using one machine for Project Server, WSS, and SQL
server, then i would suggest you create local accounts on that server and
use those accounts to link up with your project server accounts. Then
disable anonymous authentication for the PWA site. When the people connect
to the site, or the WSS sites, it will ask them to authenticate to the site,
and here they can then use the windows accounts that you created.

I hope this helps - if not, please shout.
 
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