# Thursday, November 18, 2004
System.Net.WebException: The request failed with HTTP status 401: Unauthorized.
Thursday, November 18, 2004 12:45:53 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00) ( Asp.Net )

I have a WSE2 web service that was working fine until one day i got the above error.  i realised i had changed the permissions on the folder (for the web application), so that only System, Adminstrators and ASPNET had permissions on it.  Previously the 'Users' group had permissions.  By a process of elimination, i found out that IUSR_xx needed to have read/execute permissions aswell as ASPNET, even though the process is running with the identity of ASPNET. 

it's strange, but i thought i'd post my solution here in case anyone else comes across this.

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Saturday, January 22, 2005 2:31:34 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
Thanks Tim,

I ran into exactly the same problem - appreciate the time you saved me !

Joe
Joe
Wednesday, May 31, 2006 12:10:05 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
Hi
I am getting the same error. So could you please help me out to tell me what folders and what permissions i need to check.

Regards,
Sanjeev
Sanjeev Azad
Thursday, July 06, 2006 11:52:39 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
Cheers - I'd the same problem. Thanks for helping out.
J
Wednesday, November 22, 2006 12:15:56 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
Tim,
Thanks, this clued me in on fixing a recently migrated .net web service.
Regards,
-dw
David Wilkinson
Thursday, May 24, 2007 4:01:13 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
Wow..........Thank You so much........i have been searched for the solution for this for 1 whole day.....I browsed every single website relate to it, and i just can not find the solution that would works for me!!!

CHEERSSSSSSSSS~~~~~~~~
Kit
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