Problem IE6: 'Accessing the resource <local file> has been disallowed'

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Richard Rosenberger

If i open a local HTML file i get the error
"Accessing the resource <local file> has been disallowed"
I am running IE 6, latest patches on Win 2000.
I am admin, use NTFS, but security is not the issue.

This error appears if i try to open a local file. e.g. C:\index.html
E:\index.html or whatever local path you can imagine.

Web browsing is not a problem. Server access using UNC is also no
problem. e.g. \\server\C\index.html works fine.
Also local UNC paths \\C:\index.html or \\E:\index.html are working
fine to.


This problem is mentioned on the Microsoft website for IE 4 upto 5.5,
also i found a lot of posts on usenet and forums, but all the
solutions mentioned there does not apply to IE 6.x

I could nothing find on I-net to solve this.

Can anyone shine a light on this? Any help would be appreciated.

Richard
 
Sandi,

Although the solution you mentioned was not valid for IE 6, it
directed me into the good direction.

I changed the key

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
NoFileUrl=dword:00000001

into

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
NoFileUrl=dword:00000000

And that did the trick.

Thanks for helping me out.

Richard
 
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