Bob Barrows said:
I'm not intending this to be a dig (although I am well-aware that it may
come off that way): 4 years of asp development and you don't know what IUSR
is? I'm sorry, but I'm just a little surprised that this is even possible.
Even if you're not involved with IIS administration. I'm not involved with
IIS administration, but I could not have done my job of developing asp
applications without becoming exposed to the IUSR and IWAM accounts during
the first couple months of my asp learning curve. I realize my experience
may not be typical, but I can't help but being surprised when someone says
they've been doing this work for 4 years without ever encountering these
concepts.
I imagine that it is hard to believe, but I was hired at my first company to
work on an existing web application, and that stuff was alreay built. I just
had to add the lines for the include file which had all this stuff, then go
to work on what I needed to do, mostly design issues, some ASP to add code
to, for example, have a loop for something which would display things
dynamically. The next company was the same situation, site already started
being built, I just had to add the include files at the top for styles,
database connection, etc. At my current job, ASP is not my main function,
but I have been writing a web-based app myself, but again, I was able to
copy code from the guy who does the Intranet, and never had to worry about
it.
Just like I have a vested interest in the idea that my car needs to be
running, I have never actually taken the engine apart to see what makes it
run, I have never felt the need to go into connection code to find out what
makes it run. I have, on occasion, tried to read up on ADO, OLE, Jet, and
all the other terms which are too numerous to mention, and it didn't really
click with me. Don't know why. I'm a smart guy. 2 college degrees. Won the
spelling bee in the 5th grade. But for some reason, I just can't get this
database connection stuff. Doesn't make a lick of sense to me.
For this project for which I am asking help, I am doing a thing on my
church's web site, and they have to use Access, which I have never used
before.
Hate to sound defensive, but since you said you had a hard time believing
it, well, now you know the boring details.