Access denied - Let me in!

Question

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

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

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.