Microsoft KB Archive/232985

= Remotely Administering IIS 4.0 with the MMC Returns Access Denied Error =

Article ID: 232985

Article Last Modified on 6/23/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0

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This article was previously published under Q232985



We strongly recommend that all users upgrade to Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) version 6.0 running on Microsoft Windows Server 2003. IIS 6.0 significantly increases Web infrastructure security. For more information about IIS security-related topics, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/prodtech/IIS.mspx



SYMPTOMS
When you attempt to connect remotely to a computer running IIS 4.0 with the MMC, the following error message occurs:

Unable to administer the FTP service on computername because the following error occurred:

Access is denied.

When you click the OK button again, the same message appears and no connection is made.



CAUSE
Distributed COM has been disabled on the remote IIS computer.



RESOLUTION
On the remote IIS computer, click Start, click Run, type "dcomcnfg" (without the quotation marks), and then click OK. On the Default Properties tab, select Enable Distributed COM on this computer.

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