This is my chance - probably the only time I will actually be able to offer some assistance to anyone else who has had a problem. I have problems ALL of the time when I am working on a program. I do not know how to program, I do not know anything about programming, and I am always messing / screwing things up - so today was no exception.
However, unfortunately, unlike most days, Google was unable to help me. Each page I found that I thought perhaps may contain the solution to my problem - solved another similar problem. So I was stuck fending for myself.
My setup:
Windows XP SP2 (PRO)
Visual Studio 2005
IIS 5.1 / SQL 2005
The abhorring problem:
Unable to start debugging on the web server. An authentication error occurred while communicating with the web server. Please see Help for assistance.
The solution:
(there are several problems which may cause this error apparently, a Path specifically as well if you are running this on VISTA. However in my case:
1. Click on Start -> Settings -> Control Panel
2. Click on Administrative Tools
3. Click on Internet Information Services
4. Right click on the Website (in many cases Default Website), and click Properties
5. Ensure that there is a Check on the option: HTTP Keep-Alives Enabled
6. Press OK
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December 26th, 2007 at 12:30 am
It only took a couple weeks for this to help at least 1 person.
Goodness. That took a long time, but I found this eventually. Thanks!