ASPNET autogen password expired?

[Trent Tait]

ASP.NET has been working for me fine for a month or 2,
All of a sudden I get: Server Unavailable.

Windows XP SP1 (up to date hotfix wise)
..NET 1.1

P4 2.4m

Event log:

Logon Failure:
Reason: The specified account's password
has expired
User Name: ASPNET
Domain: DELLWING
Logon Type: 3
Logon Process: Advapi
Authentication Package: Negotiate
Workstation Name: DELLWING

How does an auto-generated password expire? And how on
earth do I make it generate a new one? Any ideas?

Trent.

 

[Daryl]

Hi Trent,

I have noticed this effect, I believe it is to do with one of the latest SPs
for XP.
Go into the users and find the aspnet user account.
You will find the option require password at next logon is checked. Uncheck
this and IIS should allocate a new password.

Hope this helps
Regards
Daryl

 

[Trent Tait]

Thanks Daryl,

But I had already tried this ealier on with no success...
I tried it again anyway, but still nothing. You were
right however, Require Password was ticked on... I don't
remember it being like that before.

Trent

 

[Daryl]

Hi Trent,

There are all sorts of items in the MS knowledge base about this sort of
problem

One of the guys in the office suggested you re-register asp.net
aspnet_regiis.exe

I also found this article
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;827641&Product=aspnet

Otherwise searching the MS Knowledge base with a few more keywords.

XP seams to have more issues than win2000.

Anyway hope that helps

Daryl

 

[Trent Tait]

Once again, thanks for your help Daryl.

I've actually had the .net 1.0 issue previously and ran
that batch and fixed it, but that batch is for 1.0 only,
not 1.1.

One of the updates I grabbed from windows update last
night seems to have fixed the issue, but now I can't
connect to my database. I managed to get an asp page to
connect to it using both odbc and oledb, so it must be a
simple permission problem. I will just have to keep
looking.

Trent Tait