hi Jeff and Colin,

I have a similar prbelm with permissions. My enviornemnt is as follows:-

Win2k3 (pls note: no service pack installed)
cs2002 developer edition with sp3 (no fp1)
sql server 2000 enterprise edition with sp4

I have successfully unpacked the retail 2002 site but fowlling are
problems:-

1. when i run http://localhost/retail2002, i get access denied. and it talks
abit aspnet machine a/c etc.

What I did:- surprisingly, i do not have "network service" a/c under users,
instead i have aspnet so i added aspnet to all the the databases with
priviliges "public" and "dbowner" - but it did not work.
under application pool indetity in iis - it shows Network service.

-i am aware that the aspnet a/c in win2k3 is network service, but in my
win2k3, it shows aspnet only.

I dont know how to ge the site running. Please help. everything else seems
to work fine.

2. i have successfully started the business desk, by navigating to
http://localhost/retail2002bizdesk/default.asp . when i start the business
desk i get the following error.

"The application is unable to log events. if you have recently changed your
password, you must change the password for the commerce logging event object
in component services and for each commerce server winodws 2000 service. you
must then restart business desk."

- i have never changed my passwords since win2k3 installation.
- the error refers to windows2000 services, but i have win2k3
- how can restart the business desk?
- finally what is the solution to this error, thouh this error is not a
critical one, as i feel.

but the previous one is. please help me to run the retail 2002 site.

regards, amit

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