Hi,

    We using the BDE via ODBC aliases from inside COM objects via IIS (how's
that for acronym city!?)

    IIS runs within an account called IUSR_<machine_name>, which calls our
COM object, which then makes calls to the BDE.

    Unless we give the IUSR_ account membership of the Administrators group,
we get the $2B05 error.

    Does anyone know why this is / how to get around it?  .. we don't want
the IUSR_ account to have admin privelages...
Thanks .. Laurie   :-)

Using Win2K Server, D5, BDE 4

On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 18:43:00 +0800, "Laurie Smithdale" <l...@iinet.net.au>
wrote:

What happens if you give the IUSR_* account read permissions on the
HKLM/Software/Borland registry key?  I am guessing that this user account
can't see the BDE configuration settings in the registry and making it an
Administrator give it that permission.  If you explicitly grant rights to
this user for that key,  then you should be able to resolve without making
the account a "full administrator"...

Jerry Bloomfield (TeamB)
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Hi Jerry,

    Thanks for the input .. If I logon to the machine as IUSR_*, then I can
run the BDE no problems at all...it's only
    in the COM object that it balks...

..Laurie

On Mon, 18 Sep 2000 09:05:48 +0800, "Laurie Smithdale" <l...@iinet.net.au>
wrote:

Hmmm,  I am afraid I don't have much (if any) experience with COM objects.
Your description makes me want to think that it is an OS security
permissions issue,  but I am not positive.

If you haven't already asked about this in the Delphi Active-X group,  they
might be able to give you a little better insight in finding a solution...

Jerry Bloomfield (TeamB)
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