Access Denied Web Server to Remote Server on Network

[jkb17]

Hello.

I'm working with ASP.NET 2.0 on Windows 2003 with IIS 6.0. I'm attempting to access a shared directory on a remote server (also, Win2k3 server) on the network.

I need to iterate through the files on the shared folder (I use System.IO.DirectoryInfo), create a copy of them and post them to a folder that is a sub-directory of the shared folder.

My application is failing on the read with "Access is denied."

I've added the web server as an allowed user to the share to no avail.

Does anyone have any other suggestions?

Thanks in advance

Jim

 

[Turkbear]

Hi,
By 'added the web server' do you mean that you added the account that IIS uses to communicate with other servers
( IUSR_machinename , I think) ?



To Paraphrase:"The Help you get is proportional to the Help you give.."

 

[jkb17]

Sorry if I was not clear. I just added the computer itself to the permissions on the folder.

For example, right-click, security and when I clicked the Add... button, I clicked Object Types... and selected "Computers" check-box.

I enter the object name, "machinename," and once selected it appears as: domainname\machinename$ in the Security tab of the shared folder.

During my massive googling I remember reading an article that suggested this as an alternative so I tried that.

I did not add IUSR_machinename as its a local account to the web server and not accessible on domain users (at least to my knowledge it is not).

I am trying to allow that Network Service user from the web server access.

 

[philhege]

Does the account that runs the ASP.NET worker process have permissions to the share?

Phil Hegedusich
Senior Programmer/Analyst
IIMAK

http://www.iimak.com

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