Well, since this is a developer machine, everyone (actually, "Everyone" group) has full permissions from the root of this drive down. And I would have thought that adding my user to the Admin group would also give it privileges.
In any case, I went full out and added the user to both the Admin *and* Backup Operator groups, gave it full, inheritable permissions from the root on down, triple-checked that the Apache2 service is set to log on as this specific user...and the problem still occurs. -----Original Message----- From: William A. Rowe, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 2:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: problem running 2.0.28 as Win2k service (was 2.0.18) Dave, win32 canonicalization requires list/read access to each directory above Apache directories, to the root. It doesn't have to have access to their contents, but it needs to be able to list files, so it can determine that "c:\rootdir" is spelled "rootdir" and not "RootDir", so we don't escape from filename normalization, and bypass <Directory > restrictions. To get file attributes of directories, the 'Backup Operator' flag may have to be toggled, or they may not have permission to open a filehandle to the directory. Bill
