Both machines must be in the same forest. There is no workgroup support.
Basically, messing with ACL's does not .
Join the machines to a domain and you are set.


"OmegaMan" wrote:

> I have VS2005 R2 SP1 running with no problems on a XP SP2 box and needed to
> have it run on another XP SP2 box to test out performance. To my chagrin,
> after installing it on the new machine I get the
>
> "Could not connect to Virtual Server. Access was denied."
>
> "You do not have permission to access the event viewer."
> --- For the add (this computer) in Recent Events
>
> in the Admin web management page.
>
> Things tried:
>
> 1) Adjusted the COM settings to be wide open, no denials for all in
> dcomcnfg.exe.
> 2) Accessing Account is in Administrators.
> 3) Tried accessing it in Firefox same message.
> 4) Researched in this newsgroup, and web, for "Access was denied" to no avail.
> 5) Turned off Norton Firewall/other security gotchas.
>
> As mentioned I have this running on another computer....hence my confusion.
> Here are the facts
>
> 1) Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1
> 2) Win XP SP2
> 3) IIS 5
>
> Please advise
>
>
>
> --
> advTHANKSance
>
> OmegaMan