I am a bit of a newbee to any kind of programming but have recently bought Building an APS.NET Intranet after finishing Beginning ASP.NET using VB.NET.
I have the .NET Framework 1.1, SQL Server (Evaluation Edition) using Windows Authentication and IIS installed.
I have downloaded the IBuy Spy Portal and installed it, with a problem that I had to over come. Basically the installation failed as access to the web.config file was denied. This seemed to be because the file was read only. After changing the attribute I was able to install the portal ok.
However, when I try to open the portal by typing http://localhost/portalvb in the address bar, I get a 403 - Forbidden "You are not authorised to view this page" page.
I am logged on as an administrator to the machine so I should have access to everything. The portal users are; dbo and home300\ASPNET.
All the files with the exception of web.config are read only and I have changed all the files so they are not read only but get the same problem.
This is probably a very simple problem and isn't .NET related but I can't seem to get to the bottom of it.

Any ideas anyone??

Thanks, Chris.