Question:
I installed SQL Server Express 2005 and Web Developer Express 2008 on my client's server running windows server 2003 and the server recently crashed and needed to be 'repaired' using the OS install disks. My client reported that he had seen a user named asp.net logged into the server (and "sbs" also) and had not recalled seeing either of those 'users' on his server before I installed these products so naturally I got the blame for the crash and now he wants me to remove these products from his server which is going to make it hard for me to develop asp.net applications for him.
I have searched the web and these forums using 'asp.net user login' and of course there are a gazillion hits with those terms in them so I have not been able to find the reason why there would be an asp.net or sbs user logged into the server and what it is doing there.
Please point me to the right place to read about this or tell me what is going on. The SQL and Web Developer books I have bought don't seem to have anything about it.
Thanks for your help
Answer1:
Maybe you should check your computer registry for the account "aspnet".Nomally it should be at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList",where the accounts are used to run services and are'nt allowed to login as operaters,and the username should be aspnet,not asp.net.If you find the user under key sam,maybe the server has been hacked in,just del it
Answer2:
Except the Windows 2003 ASP.NET user is NETWORK SERVICE. And it will be installed with the framework, regardless of whether SQL Express and VWD were on the system.
That doesn't mean you didn't cause the crash of course.
Jeff