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I'm a farm admin
I'm a site collection admin
I'm a member of <site> Owners
Access denied logging in (Windows)
What else could it be?
FYI, in system.web
<authentication mode="Windows" />
<identity impersonate="true" />
SP App Pool is running under a specific windows account
This post worked for me
http://www.sharepoint-insight.com/2010/02/24/access-denied-for-sharepoint-site-owner/
i can now access the site.
(un?)interestingly enuf tho, this post is still an issue: Sign in as a different user access denied
You said "im RDC-ed to my VM" so you're accessing the site using IE running on the server (VM) itself right?
I am assuming you're using "Integrated Authentication" (where it's supposed to pick up the windows login) and you're getting 3 prompts for credentials before 401 access denied - in that case its most probably the local loopback check.
DisableLoopbackCheck & SharePoint: What every admin and developer should know.
The first thought that comes to mind is that you haven't set the portalsuperuseraccount and portalsuperreaderaccount.
From powershell:
$webApp = Get-SPWebApplication -Identity http://webappUrl
$webApp.Properties["portalsuperuseraccount"]
$webApp.Properties["portalsuperreaderaccount"]
If they are empty, check out Configure object cache user accounts
Is this a SharePoint access denied error?
You might want to try using Process Monitor to check whether there are any NTFS file permission issues. I normally run it while the issue occurs, then search for the word "denied".
Other things you can check:
ULS log (ULSViewer will help) - this is probably your best bet
Event viewer
Let us know if you are still stuck.
