Attn: Fixed it. But can you tell me what caused problem?

My boss was able to use explorer view in WSS for a long time. I had to change
the identity for the application pools but it failed because the new login
did not have permissions on one of the databases. So I reverted back to the
original login for the application pools. After that my bosses explorer view
would not work. Nothing else had been changed. So I found a KB article saying
that if you have SP2 installed on the client and you are running basic
authentication on the server that you have to edit a reg key to fix the
explorer view problem. But we are not using basic authentication but we did
the reg key fix and now his explorer view works fine. What would cause it to
just stop working when all I did was try to change the identity that the
application pools were using?

Mike
Fri Feb 25 10:13:22 CST 2005

Can you tell us which KB article and/or which reg key.

I have a nagging problem that might be helped with the same thing.

(Mine is lack of (Name) downward arrow functionality in a doc lib)

Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland
WSS FAQ at http://wss.collutions.com
Please reply to the newsgroup

"Jay" <Jay@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> My boss was able to use explorer view in WSS for a long time. I had to
> change
> the identity for the application pools but it failed because the new login
> did not have permissions on one of the databases. So I reverted back to
> the
> original login for the application pools. After that my bosses explorer
> view
> would not work. Nothing else had been changed. So I found a KB article
> saying
> that if you have SP2 installed on the client and you are running basic
> authentication on the server that you have to edit a reg key to fix the
> explorer view problem. But we are not using basic authentication but we
> did
> the reg key fix and now his explorer view works fine. What would cause it
> to
> just stop working when all I did was try to change the identity that the
> application pools were using?

Jay
Fri Feb 25 10:33:03 CST 2005

Yes Mike, The KB article is located here
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;841215

"Mike Walsh" wrote:

> Can you tell us which KB article and/or which reg key.
>
> I have a nagging problem that might be helped with the same thing.
>
> (Mine is lack of (Name) downward arrow functionality in a doc lib)
>
> Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland
> WSS FAQ at http://wss.collutions.com
> Please reply to the newsgroup
>
> "Jay" <Jay@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:23774021-99C9-4DFD-BEA9-11AC08F7A905@microsoft.com...
> > My boss was able to use explorer view in WSS for a long time. I had to
> > change
> > the identity for the application pools but it failed because the new login
> > did not have permissions on one of the databases. So I reverted back to
> > the
> > original login for the application pools. After that my bosses explorer
> > view
> > would not work. Nothing else had been changed. So I found a KB article
> > saying
> > that if you have SP2 installed on the client and you are running basic
> > authentication on the server that you have to edit a reg key to fix the
> > explorer view problem. But we are not using basic authentication but we
> > did
> > the reg key fix and now his explorer view works fine. What would cause it
> > to
> > just stop working when all I did was try to change the identity that the
> > application pools were using?
>
>
>

Mike
Sat Feb 26 02:09:07 CST 2005

Thanks Jay, it doesn't look relevant in my case but it did at least remind
me that I had assumed windows authentication and also hadn't asked about XP
SP2.

Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland

"Jay" <Jay@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5657AE65-321E-48AE-B370-1C869FA87C36@microsoft.com...
> Yes Mike, The KB article is located here
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;841215
>
> "Mike Walsh" wrote:
>
>> Can you tell us which KB article and/or which reg key.
>>
>> I have a nagging problem that might be helped with the same thing.
>>
>> (Mine is lack of (Name) downward arrow functionality in a doc lib)
>>
>> Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland
>> WSS FAQ at http://wss.collutions.com
>> Please reply to the newsgroup
>>
>> "Jay" <Jay@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:23774021-99C9-4DFD-BEA9-11AC08F7A905@microsoft.com...
>> > My boss was able to use explorer view in WSS for a long time. I had to
>> > change
>> > the identity for the application pools but it failed because the new
>> > login
>> > did not have permissions on one of the databases. So I reverted back to
>> > the
>> > original login for the application pools. After that my bosses explorer
>> > view
>> > would not work. Nothing else had been changed. So I found a KB article
>> > saying
>> > that if you have SP2 installed on the client and you are running basic
>> > authentication on the server that you have to edit a reg key to fix the
>> > explorer view problem. But we are not using basic authentication but we
>> > did
>> > the reg key fix and now his explorer view works fine. What would cause
>> > it
>> > to
>> > just stop working when all I did was try to change the identity that
>> > the
>> > application pools were using?
>>
>>
>>