Visual Studio .NET - Connecting to Web Server Problems

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I have tried logging in as a user with administrator access and tried starting a ASP.NET web application, but whenever I try to connect to the folder it says I do not have access, even though I am logged in as admin of the domain.

Am I not doing something right?

Here is what I have done so far:

I have 3 computers in my network (I know a Workgroup would be much simpler, and a domain is not neccesary for something so small, but this is merely for educational purposes). Lets say the domain is called DOMAIN.COM, and the NETBIOS name is DOMAIN.

The SERVER machine is running Windows Server 2003 RC3, and has IIS 6 installed. The other two machines, LAPTOP and DESKTOP are running Windows XP SP1. I installed Visual Studio .NET Professional on both the desktop and laptop, but I did not stall the Web Components because I had planned to run IIS etc. from my Web Server.

I set up a share for Inetpub on the server machine called Inetpub$, and then on LAPTOP I create a Mapped Network Drive called S: that points to the share Inetpub$.

On the server I go into Active Directory, and go to Computers. I right-click on the machine LAPTOP and goto properties, and goto the Member Of tab. I Add it to the Domain Administrator group, which I believe allows those computers to have full control of the domain.

I also create a user with Administrator access.

I can open up the Network Drive no problem. I can save files to it, I can open files from it, everything seems to be working fine. However, when I try to start a new ASP.NET Web Application and I try something like http://192.168.1.100/test/page, or \\SERVER\inetpub$\wwwroot\test\page, or S:\wwwroot\test\page it gives me an error:

"Unable to create Web project 'test/page'. Unable to create the Web location 'http://192.168.1.100/test/page'. Access denied."

Administrator is denied access???

This makes no sense to me. Why won't the application connect to my web server? Is there something I need to do in IIS still or Active Directory? Someone please help!