ASPNET account is missing

[Billy Angers]

My server is running under Windows SBS 2003. I've deleted some directories
that was containing Outlook Web Access files, it was done few months ago by
mistake. Now I want to use OWA for some distant users. So, I tried the
procedure on the MS website:
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;883380&x=13&y=19
I've done all of the Method 1, but the files have not been re-created, and I
get this Event:
Event ID: 1047 Metabase Update failed to properly initialize its context. It
will retry initialized every 60 seconds until succeeds or shutdown is
requested.

After few searches, I found that the ASPNET user is used to update the
metabase and that this account was missing in my Active Directory.
I read somewhere that this command may re-create the account:
%systemroot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\aspnet_regiis.exe /i

Or maybe, re-installing dotNet Framework would re-create the account?

Does anybody have already experience and solve this problem?

Thanks.

Billy Angers

 

[Kevin Spencer]

Look for the NetworkService account.

--
HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
Professional Numbskull

Hard work is a medication for which
there is no placebo.

 

[Billy Angers]

I don't even see a NetworkService account. For what else this account is
being used? Because everything else seems to run well. And how could I
recover those accounts?

 

[Juan T. Llibre]

Kevin,

That would be the "Network Service" account.
(There's a space between the words... )

The full account name is "NT Authority\Network Service"

re:
There's a quick rundown of the steps needed to create an account to run ASP.NET as, at :
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q315158

Also, as just sent to another thread :

See http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/kwzs111e.aspx
for a list of ASP.NET 2.0 directories and the permissions the new ASP.NET account will require.

Review this checklist :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/paght000009.asp
for instructions on how to run ASP.NET with a custom service account.

 

[Billy Angers]

Where I'm supposed to see this account in Active Directory?
Domain->Users ?

Thanks

 

[Kevin Spencer]

Thanks for the correction, Juan. I hadn't looked at it in awhile. Should've
checked to make sure.

--

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
Professional Numbskull

Hard work is a medication for which
there is no placebo.

 

[Kevin Spencer]

It's a local machine account.

--
HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
Professional Numbskull

Hard work is a medication for which
there is no placebo.

 

[Juan T. Llibre]

It's a local account.

You don't really need to run ASP.NEt as that account.

Creating a new account and following the steps in the 3 links I sent you
will have you up and running in almost no time.

There's security problems associated with running ASP.NET on a domain controller if the default
ASP.NET account ( which has a lot of permissions and -therefore- the capability to do a lot of
damage )
is the Network Service account.

Most SBS installations are setup with the SBS box running as a domain controller.

The solution is to create a "weak account" with far fewer permissions on the domain controller,
and run ASP.NET as that account. The links I sent you :

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q315158
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/kwzs111e.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/paght000009.asp

show you what you have to do.