I followed Richard's directions but received HTTP Error 500 when trying
to contact http://localhost.

The following steps were required:

1) Unchecked "Show friendly HTTP errors" in IE. Bizarrely this provides
MORE info to the Event Viewer so you can troubleshoot better. Event
Viewer then revealed a DCOM local activation error and supplied a
Component ID

2) Went to the DCOM service in Administrative tools and located the
Component ID. It turns out to belong to IIS Admin Services

3) Customized the security properties of the IIS Admin component to
give Launch and Activation permission To the user IWAM_<computername>.
This is the account that IIS uses to identify itself to Windows.

4) Set Directory Security on default web site in IIS to use Integrated
Security. IIS will not permit Anonymous Authentication for ASP pages.

I would be interested to hear if this helps anybody.

For the record, I got iis_dl_ and iis_in_ from a Win2000 Professional
CD

Best Regards,

Baraholka

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Well, not so bizarre.  "Friendly" in this case means the opposite of
detailed, in other words, so stupid people can ignore it...

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