"Access Denied" Installing Certificate Services

[Mike Abrahamson]

While trying to install certificate services on either of my W2K servers
(one a DC, the other stand-alone) the install fails with an "Access Denied"
message. However, I am logged in with the Administrator account, which is a
member of the Domain Admins group. The message appears shortly after the
IIS shutdown portion of the install process.

Any ideas how to solve this one?

Thanks,
Mike

 

[Steven L Umbach]

Try adding yourself to the enterprise administrators group next time
you try on the dc. I am not sure if that is the problem, but worth a
ry. --- Steve

 

[Mike Abrahamson]

Lo and behold the Administrator account is already a member of Enterprise
Admins. Good idea, but not the problem this time. This one has me stumped.

Anyone else??
Mike

 

[Mike Abrahamson]

Well, I found the problem. It turns out the share I was using to try and
save the certificate configuration was set to read-only for the
administrator account. Once I changed the share location everything
installed just fine. Thanks for the effort, Steven.

Mike

 

[Steven L Umbach]

Hi Mike. I was close - access permission problem. Thanks for posting your
reply so that we all can learn. --- Steve