[thelist] Permission denied error using ASP's FileSystemObject

Joshua Olson joshua at waetech.com
Fri Aug 30 13:21:01 CDT 2002


----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig" <cd-ml at aardvark.net.au>
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 2:05 PM

> the funny thing is that the page works fine when browsing locally
> (http://localhost/), but chokes when I run it from a machine (running
win98,
> IE5) accross the network. I've read that the user 'IUSR_<machine_name>'
must
> have read and write access to the folder, but if the page works locally,
why
> not accross the network.

When working locally, you are authenticated into the machine and the browser
sends that authentication information with the page request.  Thusly, IIS
runs with your permissions, not those for IUSR_<machine_name>.  Does this
answer your question?

-joshua




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