cannot create files/folders in wwwroot directory

hi

I cannot create/copy any files or folders in the wwwroot directory. I just installed visual studio.NET 2003 complete and IIS 5.1 complete on an XP system and NTFS drive. When I try a Visual C# ASP.NET Web application, VS says that the web components are not installed.....but it is!!! I tried everything..can anyone pls help me out?

Were you signed on as the local administrator when you installed IIS?

Yeah its a permission issue.

yes.. i only use the built-in administrator account thats created when installing XP.

Then you're going to have to give a more complete explanation of what you are doing and what isn't working.

Sorry to reply so late...I finally got it working. All I had to do was disable "Simple File sharing" in windows explorer. That displays the security tab in the folder's properties section.
Something small and simple...but winXP is a bit tweaky.

Thank you kodex750, I want to have your children. This took a full day to crack, and it was only your mention of Simple File Sharing that did it. For the benefit of other hunters, here's a bit more detail of what worked for me.
Firstly, I was presented with "fopen ... failed to open stream ... permission denied". Searching the web on that brought hints but no solution. It was only after I narrowed the problem down to wwwroot that I found your post.
I got the error after moving to a new XP SP2 computer. The puzzling thing was that it did not happen on the old machine, which was also SP2.
To fix it, click on Tools | Folder Options... | View, from an Explorer window. Turn off Use simple file sharing at the end of the list and click OK.
It seems any Explorer window will do - you don't have to Apply to All Folders.
Then right-click on (eg) C:\Inetpub\wwwroot and choose Properties.
Under the Security tab, highlight a Group or user name called
Internet Guest Account (<your computer name>\USR_<your computer name>).
In the Permissions area I clicked on Full Control | Allow, but it might have been enough just to uncheck the Deny next to Write.
Click OK.
This should set the permissions for wwwroot and all its contents. But I found a subfolder still did not work. When I opened Properties for the subfolder, I saw an error message saying the permissions were out of order and might not work. I could click OK to resort them, or Cancel to reset them. A good old helpful Windows choice. I guessed wrong and clicked Cancel: this apparently sets the permssions so Everyone can do everything! I ended up deleting the subfolder and starting again, whereupon !!! fopen works !!!.

Thanks again. By the way, I still have no idea why the problem does not arise on the old computer, which has Use simple file sharing enabled.