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Article ID: 216150 - Last Review: February 19, 2007 - Revision: 1.1
Creating Web Causes Server Error: Administrators Is Reserved
This article was previously published under Q216150
When you create a new FrontPage Web on a Microsoft Internet Information
Server (IIS) Web server, you may receive one of the following error messages:
Server error: The user or group name 'Administrators' is reserved and
cannot be removed
Server error cannot hide the file or folder C:\inetpub\wwwroot\_vti_script
Also, the Web is not created.
The error occurs because FrontPage detects that the anonymous account,
typically IUSR_Computername, is a member of the Administrators group. If
FrontPage detects a group that has the IUSR account in it, it attempts to
remove it. In this case, the Administrators group needs to be added as the
group to administer the Web. This causes a conflict, and the Web is not
created.
The resolution is to remove the anonymous account from the Administrators
group.
In order to verify which account is the anonymous account that you need to
remove from the Administrators group, follow these steps:
On IIS 4.0
- Click Start, point to Programs, point to
Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack, point to Microsoft Internet
Information Server, and then click Internet Service Manager.
- Under Internet Information Server, and under the
Computername, select the virtual server that hosts your FrontPage
Webs, then right-click the virtual server name, and click
Properties.
- On the Directory Security tab, click Edit for Anonymous
Access and Authentication Control.
- Next to Allow Anonymous Access, click Edit.
- In the Username box is the anonymous account that you need
to remove from the Administrators group in User Manager for
Domains.
On IIS 3.0
- Click Start, then point to Programs, then point to
Microsoft Internet Information Server, and click Internet
Service Manager.
- Double-click on the Computername next to the WWW
service.
- In the box under Anonymous Logon is the Username
box which contains the anonymous account.
- Remove this account from the Administrators group.
Note: Make sure to remove the anonymous account for the Local Administrators account and not just the Domain Administrators Group account.
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions.
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions
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