Handling Error Messages While Connecting To A Windows Sharepoint Services Website

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While connecting with a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 you may receive following error message, which says:

Access denied. You do not have permission to perform this action or access this resource. Access requests are not enabled.

OR

Cannot complete this action.
Please try again.

This symptom may appear even when you are logged on by using a user account as a member of the Domain Administration group and you are the site owner of the Windows SharePoint Services Web site.

Reason for this error messages

SharePoint behaves this way when you delete the user account in Microsoft Windows, and then re-create the user account by using the same user name. For each newly created user account, Windows generates a unique security identifier (SID). Hence, when you delete a user account in Windows, and then re-create it by using the same name, you need to remove old account and then add the new user account to the site collection in Windows SharePoint Services before the user can view Web pages in that site collection.

Solution of this trouble

Although, there are several ...
... ways to resolve this issue, here we will discuss one appropriate method to match your situation. If the User Is a Member of the Users Group and you are using Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, you can go for following method:

In case, you are a member of the Users group in Windows, remove the existing user account from the site collection in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Further, add the new user account that you re-created to the site collection. To do so, follow these steps:

1.Connect to the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web site by using a user account that has administrator permissions to the site collection.

2.Click Site Actions->Site Settings.

3.On the Site Settings page, click People and groups in the Users and Permissions.

4.Click to select the check box next to the user account that you want to remove from the site collection, and then click Remove Users from Group under Actions.

5.Click OK when you are prompted to confirm the removal

6.Click Site Actions->Site Settings.

7.On the Site Settings page, click People and groups under Users and Permissions.

8.On the People and Groups page, click New, and then click Add Users.

9.On the Add Users Central Administration page, type in the Users/Groups box, click Check Names, click to select the permissions that you want the user to have under Give Permission, and then click OK.

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