The very excellent deployment diagnostic page http://www.iis.net/learn/publish/troubleshooting-web-deploy/web-deploy-error-codes
states that "The Remote Agent Service accepts either built-in Administrator or Domain Administrator credentials" however this does not seem to work when connecting from a domain computer to a non-domain computer.
When I am on a computer on our Active Directory based development domain trying to push a site to a demo system, I attempt to connect using the following credentials and I get ERROR_USER_NOT_ADMIN:
- Service URL: http://172.17.32.115/
- Site/Application: 172.17.32.115/MySearchService
- Username: DEMOSYS\Administrator
- Password: *********
- [X] Save Password
Where 172.17.32.115 is the IP address of the computer DEMOSYS.
I also tried with just:
Is this just a bad error message, or does it really think the Administrator account is not the Administrator account?