IIS 5 - General error Unable to open registry key

[Robert Blakeman]

( - also posted on inetserver.iis)

Hi

I am a web programmer with an ASP-based website on my
webhosts server (Win2000, IIS 5) which references an
Access 97 database. I am INTERMITTENTLY getting errors of
the kind:

Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers (0x80004005)
[Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver]General error
Unable to open registry key 'Temporary (volatile) Jet DSN
for process 0x9ac Thread 0xa0c DBC 0x15d1024 Jet'

I have read the articles:

[url]http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2009[/url]
[url]http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=306518[/url]
[url]http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315456[/url]

on this matter, and intend to refer my webhost to them.
However, after enduring this error for over 18 months and
across several servers, he has basically admitted that he
is at a loss as to its cause, and claims there are other
websites on the same server experiencing no problems.
What is notable here is that the site will process its
code without trouble on most occasions, and then suddenly
fail, producing the error described above. Additionally,
I have an identical copy of my site on my ISPs free
webspace which has never failed.

Is this a permissions problem? Why does it occur
inconsistently, when code flow is uniform for all site
visitors?

Any help greatly appreciated.

Robert Blakeman

[Robert Blakeman]

Thanks Bob. I have instigated the change with the OLEDB
version of the connection string and so far all is ok.
Time will tell.

The URL is useful too. Thanks for your help! :-)

Robert Blakeman

>-----Original Message-----
>I can't answer your question, except to say that this

error never occurs if

>you use the native Jet OLEDB provider instead of ODBC. See
>[url]www.connectionstrings.com[/url] for help with your connection

strings.

>
>HTH,
>Bob Barrows
>
>Robert Blakeman wrote:

>> ( - also posted on inetserver.iis)
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I am a web programmer with an ASP-based website on my
>> webhosts server (Win2000, IIS 5) which references an
>> Access 97 database. I am INTERMITTENTLY getting errors

of

>> the kind:
>>
>> Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers (0x80004005)
>> [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver]General error
>> Unable to open registry key 'Temporary (volatile) Jet

DSN

>> for process 0x9ac Thread 0xa0c DBC 0x15d1024 Jet'
>>
>> I have read the articles:
>>
>> [url]http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2009[/url]
>> [url]http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=306518[/url]
>> [url]http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315456[/url]
>>
>> on this matter, and intend to refer my webhost to them.
>> However, after enduring this error for over 18 months

and

>> across several servers, he has basically admitted that

he

>> is at a loss as to its cause, and claims there are other
>> websites on the same server experiencing no problems.
>> What is notable here is that the site will process its
>> code without trouble on most occasions, and then

suddenly

>> fail, producing the error described above.

Additionally,

>> I have an identical copy of my site on my ISPs free
>> webspace which has never failed.
>>
>> Is this a permissions problem? Why does it occur
>> inconsistently, when code flow is uniform for all site
>> visitors?
>>
>> Any help greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Robert Blakeman

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