Permission Denied During Certificate Creation

• Microsoft Certificate Server version 1.0
• Microsoft Internet Information Server version 3.0

SYMPTOMS

When you try to create a client certificate for Microsoft Internet Explorer through the Microsoft Internet Explorer Enrollment Form, you may get an error message similar to the following:

Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a0046'
Permission denied
/CertSrv/CertEnroll/ceaccept.asp, line 10

CAUSE

The IUSR_computername account does not have access to the Certificate Server shared folder.

RESOLUTION

Give the IUSR_computername account Read access to the shared folder, and the certificates will be issued properly.

MORE INFORMATION

If the anonymous account (or logged-in user) does not have at least Read access to the Well Known Directory, the certificate generation process will fail. An error message will be returned, formatted as an HTML document.

The Well Known Directory is the name given to the shared folder required by the Certificate Server Setup program. This share contains information specific to the Self-Signed Certificate (Root CA).

Keywords : kberrmsg kbother iisconfig
Version : WinNT:1.0,3.0
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbprb