File System Access

[MichaelR]

I have an ASP.NET application running on the 1.1 Framework on 2 servers just
fine. However, on one server (Windows Server 2003) I'm having a problem.

This particular line of code throws an exception when run through the Visual
Studio 2003 debugger:

objFileStream = New
FileStream(objHttpContext.Server.MapPath("/virdir1/subdir/mrConfig.dat"),
FileMode.Open)
The exception text is:

Access to the path "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\virdir1\subdir\mrConfig.dat" is
denied."

I've checked file system security on the directory and on the file itself.
The user NETWORK SERVICE has full control over both. What else do I need to
do to enable access?



Thanks.

 

[Scott Allen]

You might want to troubleshoot by enabling some auditing on the
file/directory:

http://www.pluralsight.com/keith/book/html/howto_auditfileaccess.html

Peek in the Security log with Event Viewer just to double check the
identity of the incoming user. With impersonation and all the other
identity tricks in ASP.NET the answer can sometimes be suprising.