Thursday, May 19, 2011

MOSS -You are not authorized to view this page.You do not have permission to view this directory or page using the credentials that you supplied.

MOSS -You are not authorized to view this page.You do not have permission to view this directory or page using the credentials that you supplied.



PROBLEM STATEMENT:

When I log onto my sharepoint site I was getting below message, This occurs when I try to log in to sharepoint site. As I was administrator I was able to access the site, but when I add user to sharepoint site:- Site Settings -> peoples and groups -> sitegroup -> add user (Domain User); After adding the users to the site group.

When newly added user tries to login to SharePoint site -> Site was giving following error.

You are not authorized to view this page

You do not have permission to view this directory or page using the credentials that you supplied.


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Please try the following:

Contact the Web site administrator if you believe you should be able to view this directory or page.

Click the Refresh button to try again with different credentials.

HTTP Error 401.1 - Unauthorized: Access is denied due to invalid credentials.

Internet Information Services (IIS)

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Technical Information (for support personnel)

Go to Microsoft Product Support Services and perform a title search for the words HTTP and 401.

Open IIS Help, which is accessible in IIS Manager (inetmgr), and search for topics titled Authentication, Access Control, and About Custom Error Messages.

SOLUTION:

After struggling a lot for whole 3 days – finally I thought of changing Service Account settings from the central admin.

I have made the changes to “Web Application Pool” settings to allow the Network Service accounts, which has resolved my problem.