NET USER DELETED?
Q: A student obtained and installed WinXP Pro w/SP2, VS.NET 2003, and SQL Server 2000, and deleted the ASP.NET user account. That student’s description of the symptom and problem is: “I was finally able to connect to the Northwind database, and establish the connection string. But when I run the project, and push the load button, I get the following error. Login failed for user ‘MyComputerName\ASPNET’ I deleted the ASP.NET user account when I installed Visual Studio, so it’s not there anymore.” Several attempts to uninstall and reinstall related software seems to be getting nowhere. I would think reinstalling VS.NET and the framework would re-create that user account, but apparently not. A: Using aspnet_regiis is a very important thing to know. A problem that crops up all the time is installing VS.NET before installing IIS. Don’t do that! Install IIS first. Otherwise, unless you run asp_regiis you can’t run asp.net. An important thing that this program does is to set up all the file ex
