[thelist] WinNT -> Win2000 (file upload permission problems)

Eric Engelmann eric.engelmann at geonetric.com
Sun Dec 1 18:05:01 CST 2002


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Basically, a couple of days ago, they, my client, installed Win2000 on
their server machine and file uploading does not work any more.
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Yup, I'd say expecting problems by overwriting the OS is reasonable :-)

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After that they get an error message a la "Page can not be displayed".
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Usually this is IE's "friendly error message". In IE, go to Tools/Internet
Options/Advanced and uncheck "show friendly http error messages". This will
let IE give you the underlying error. If this doesn't work, check the event
log.

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Has anybody experienced something similar or might have at least some
ideas about what might be going on?
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For the moment, I'm assuming ASP is being used. You'll need to know how the
upload is being handled. Most frequently, a third party component such as SA
Fileup (softartisans.com) or ASPUpload (aspupload.com) is used. I know SA
will give you a fairly descriptive error message, telling you that
permissions do not allow the file to be written to disk, and will give you
the directory its attempting to write to (which is set in the ASP code).

If its SA fileup, some possible reading:
http://support.softartisans.com/faq.aspx#5
http://support.softartisans.com/default.aspx?PageID=95

Most likely, you just need to allow write permissions for IUSR_machinename
user on the directory in question.

Best of luck,

Eric




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