[wm.m.thompson]

Now I am using a VISTA machine. I am restarting my ASP.NET experience in a new environment. So far I have managed to set up the IIS. That was a lot easier than I had thought it would be. The next step is, I found out where the computer pointed the localhost to (c:\inetpub\wwwroot\). And so the next thing I thought I would try is to write htm files out to this location. Bad idea. It says I do not have permissions to do this. This is odd because I was sure I had admin privs. Any suggestions?

I am brand new to Vista. How do I check my privs on my own machine? I have clicked on the area in the Control Panel and it shows two users.
Both of these users have Admin Priv's, including me.

But when I try to save a file, to the C:\inetpub\wwwroot\ area I get this error:



I am wondering if there is some sort of special procedure that needs to be done in order to put a file in the location on the hard drive where the IIS will recognize it as an internet file. Maybe you cannot just simply cut and paste an HTML file. Is that true? Is there some sort of special "publish" or "submit" that you have to do on an operating system level or through some sort of special IIS software procedure?

[vitalka]

It does sound like an odd problem.

I think you can change permissions of that folder by right-clicking on it (go to properties, I think you'll need security tab) and checking which users/groups have access(what kind) to that folder. Try changing it from there.
I don't have Vista installed anywhere right now, so I'm not sure.

[ryokimball]

I can't say that I know exactly what your problem is, but one problem I frequently had when I first had first begun using Vista was permissions on various programs, from games to utilities (even some of the built-in stuff...). Of course, there is that protection thing (which I disabled immediately because it was very annoying, and I've forgotten the name of since then...) that pops up and asks if you're sure that you want to do absolutely anything. This stopped a few problems, but even now I have a couple of issues arise now and again with permissions, and here is my advice for these:
First, you must uninstall, or at least have the option to reinstall (I don't know what IIS is...).
Next, when you are ready to run the bin/exe/whatever that installs, right-click and choose "run as administrator." To my knowledge, this gives the application and it's children permission to play with otherwise restricted areas.
Most notably my installation of iTunes was not allowed to access my (non-standard location) music files, which simply did not fly. I had to reinstall iTunes, Quicktime, and the thing that automatically updates the two, with the above process.
Hope this helps.