'The file exists. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070050)' - MOSS 2007 Error

[sudhaonc...@gmail.com]

I am working with MOSS 2007 trial version with windows server 2003. I
had created some sites using MOSS and those were working fine.

Accidently the primary site admin user of my sites is deleted from the
ADS of my domain. After that even I was not able to start the
sharepoint central administration and related services.

Then again we re-created the same account in ADS and my central admin
and related services started working. But still I am not able to open
the sites with my primary site admin account.

When I access the site, I get the error 'The file exists. (Exception
from HRESULT: 0x80070050)'.

But with forms authenticated users my sites are working fine with
different zone(Extranet zone). But since those user has less
privilege, I am not to able play around user permissions with that
account. Google not helped me as well.

Any help would be appreciated much

Thanks

Sudha

[sudhaonc...@gmail.com]

I have solved this problem by some trial and error method:

I just added new user and was trying to add the new user as
administrator from central administrator to my site. But using that
account also I was not able to access the site. Then again I changed
back to my orginal admin user which is solved my problem. I am not
really sure how the SID is recognized this time. But surprisingly my
problem is solved

Thanks
Sudha

[gra...@shaw.ca]

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I had a similar problem, where an account was recreated in AD with a
different SID, causing the "File exists" error when the user tried to
access his sharepoint site.
I was able to solve it by updating the SID in Sharepoint's UserInfo
table.

CAUTION: Use this procedure at your own risk - I am a Sharepoint
novice.

i.e.

1. Find the problem site by querying the Sites and Webs tables:
select s.Id, w.FullUrl from Sites s inner join Webs w on
s.RootWebId = w.Id

2. Find UserInfo() rows for the problem site & user:
select * from UserInfo where tp_Login='<DOMAIN>\<user>' and
tp_SiteID='<s.Id value from step 1>'

3. Compare the value in the tp_SystemID column with the AD SIDs (old
and new) for the user.
(You will have to somehow determine these SID values, and convert
them from S-n-n-n format to hex format for the comparison).

4. Update the sp_SystemID column to the new SID value for the row
containing the old SID value.

Graeme

[daniel....@gmail.com]

Hi Graeme

I have same problem but with Central Admin. Opening it yields same
error and account which was used to install SP was deleted and
recreated.
Where do you think I should search for this account in db to change
SID (which db and table) ?

Thanks,
Daniel