Can anyone give a M$ KB number as to why a web server running SYSTEM will
not work?

I have done a similar thing to David Young. IIS is different (of course
:-)).

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On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, David Young wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Patrick Lindblom wrote:
>
> >Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 15:14:32 +0200
> >From: Patrick Lindblom <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Sender: LISTSERV list owners' forum <[log in to unmask]>
> >Subject: Re: Problems w/ WWW-index
> >
> >Alan Thew responded:
> >> What web server are you running? I've only got Nt 4.0 experience
> >> but if you're not running IIS 1.0 (only version to run on NT
> >> 3.51??) and your server is running as SYSTEM, you may have a
> >> problem...
> >
> >That's the situation. I run Netscape FastTrack as SYSTEM. Why is this a
> >problem and what can I do about it?
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Patrick
> >
>
> You need to run it as a user other than SYSTEM.  I created an admin
> account called WEBSRV, authorized to run as a service.  I'm running NT
> 3.51 workstation.  It works fine.
>
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