Friday, October 12, 2007
ArcMap & Helpful Messaging...
Posted on Friday, October 12, 2007 5:29:13 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)  Comments [3] | 
Categories: ArcGIS Server | ArcMap

I'm trying to get some maps published in ArcGIS Server, and I've run into some weird problems. When I try to publish a map, I get an error stating that the Server Object Creation failed, and that the map file can not be opened.

My first thought was security, and there were some issues there, but that did not solve everything - I still got the errors. So, as I posted the other day, I started up ArcMap as the ArcGISSOC user. The thing is that even though I can browse to the map as that user, it fails to load the map under most conditions.

I can load the mxd file into ArcMap if I first preview it in ArcCatalog (also running as ArcGISSOC). If I just try to open the mxd with ArcMap, the app just disappears. So now I'm thinking it's something with the file being corrupted (works fine as a normal user, but who knows). So I try to create a fresh new map - I fire up ArcMap as ArcGISSOC, connect to a layer, and save the file. When the save finishes, I get this helpful message

best-error-ever

Apparently no error occurred. Thanks ArcMap, but I'm still somewhat suspicious about that.

Turns out that the error is related to security. I'm working on a client's system, that's really locked down, and instead of trying a 1000 little things to see if it was security related, I took out the big hammer - I added ArcGISSOC to the local admin group. Shazam - we got maps! Now that I know it's permission based, I need to dig out the Admin guide again and review exactly what's needed

Friday, October 12, 2007 11:49:14 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
That is a great idea for a dialog. Every 5 minutes it could appear and tell you that ArcMap has not crashed.
James Fee
Friday, October 12, 2007 12:18:33 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
Some days I'm tempted to create an ESRI errors blog.

Have you ever had a "General Function Failure" ? That's my favorite.
Tony
Monday, October 15, 2007 2:56:13 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
I had the same problem and just use my local administrator account on the server to run most of my ArcServer maps since our servers are so locked down. My favorite ESRI error was when you would get "DUDE, you can't trim a line longer then it is!"
Matt
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