Error Displayed When Saving Local Server Admin Credentials

  Who is this article for?  

  Ideagen Smartforms users configuring versions older than 10.1.

  Understanding of Windows server is required.

Depending on specific server security settings, it is possible to receive a message such as:

Error Saving Database Administrator credentials to the web.config file.: An error occurred loading a configuration file: Access to the path 'C:\inetpub\wwwroot\MFS\15omdzsa.tmp' is denied (C:\inetpub\wwwroot\MFS\web.config)

If this occurs, please add "Full Control" permissions to the Ideagen Smartforms Server installation folder (in the example above c:\inetpub\wwwroot\mfs) to the administrative user that is being specified while attempting to save.