Remotely Administering IIS 4.0 with the MMC Returns Access Denied Error

ID: Q232985

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SYMPTOMS

When you attempt to connect remotely to a computer running IIS 4.0 with the MMC, the following error message occurs:

Unable to administer the FTP service on computername because the following error occurred:

Access is denied.
When you click the OK button again, the same message appears and no connection is made.


CAUSE

Distributed COM has been disabled on the remote IIS computer.


RESOLUTION

On the remote IIS computer, click Start, click Run, type "dcomcnfg" (without the quotation marks), and then click OK. On the Default Properties tab, select Enable Distributed COM on this computer.

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Version           : winnt:4.0
Platform          : winnt 
Issue type        : kbprb

Last Reviewed: July 9, 1999