Resolution for Windows Media Load Simulator 9.0: SERVER ACCESS DENIED, , Code: 0x00000000, Description: The operation completed successfully.

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Kent Gartin - 18 Aug 2004 15:19 GMT

If you get this error when running Windows Media Load Simulator 9.0:

SERVER ACCESS DENIED, , Code: 0x00000000, Description: The operation
completed successfully.

you have to make sure that the file your are trying to access is
called "wmload.asf". You can not use any other filename. Just rename
any video file to "wmload.asf", and it should work. Please see the
following Microsoft knowledge base article.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;251073

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Guenther Thomsen - 14 Oct 2004 20:25 GMT

> If you get this error when running Windows Media Load Simulator 9.0:
>
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> any video file to "wmload.asf", and it should work. Please see the
> following Microsoft knowledge base article.

This doesn't seem to work for me. I tried both "wmload.asf" and "WMLoad.asf"
(NTFS is case insensitive, but HTTP is not, so I wasn't sure) in C:\ASFRoot
(which seems to be the default publishing point for MS media server these
days) as well as C:\wmroot (as it is referred to in the documentation of the
load simulator) and the web root directory of the IIS service.

> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;251073

While this seems to be related, the article refers to an older version of
the load simulator and the error codes are not identical.

Strangely, I am able to 'play' the WMLoad.asf file using the MS Windows
media player on various hosts. Further, the load simulator version 7 works
fine (it only reports a single error, but this is a different bug).

I captured the network traffic between the host running the load simulator
and the media server and found that after some SMB and RPC chitchat the media
simulator attempts to access the file WMLoad.asf via http from the media
server. This completed successfully, but the load simulator aborts the test
nevertheless.

Is anybody using it successfully?

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