Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Error connecting to localhost site to view SQL server Mobile Agent on Device

I have set up a locahost site in IIS using the "Configure Web Synchronization Wizard". One of the first test I was asked to do was to open a broweser and browse to http://localhost/MobileTest/sqlcesa30.dll

If all is well I should get a web page with the following line:

SQL Server Mobile Server Agent 3.0

But unfortunately I get an error stating :
"The server has encountered an error while loading an application during the processing of your request. Please refer to the event log for more detail information. Please contact the server administrator for assistance."

I checekd the Event log and found this error related the IIS launch process on my machine.

DCOM got error "Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password. " and was unable to logon .\IWAM_Rataq in order to run the server:

where Rataq is the name of my machine. Could my IWAM_Rataq account be corrupted, my other sites on the machine work.

Infact if i put in a Test.htm page in the virtual directory MobileTest I am able to browse to the page.

Can the Account be re-set? is there another problem that I am not aware of. I have Norton Internet 2006 running could that be the reason? Could Norton be blocking the dll from loading? But the event log states it is a Account error.

Any ideas why this might occur? any help is always appreciated

It is unlikely to be that the account is corrupt. It is more likely to be a permissions issue somewhere between authenticating the user against the site (which from what you are saying is simply the anonymous user) and pulling data out of the database. I would suggest that in the "Configure Web Sync Wizard" that you select Windows authentication and see if that allows you to sync - this will use your current logon credentials (when you access the url) instead of the anoymous user.

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