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Thanks Rick
if I'm ever back at that client site I'll take a look.
Nick
>What version of IIS are you using?
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>If you're using anything newer than IIS 5 (Windows vista and Windows Server 2003 forward), then you shouldn't be using impersonation. Rather configure your application pools in IIS to use a specific account that has access to your data. If all local you can use SYSTEM.
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>Application Pools are the host container for IIS applications and you set security on the container. Prior to IIS 6 and Application Pools security came through via Impersonation of the user account the user logged in with which is very difficult to manage and a potential security threat.
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>+++ Rick ---
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>>Hi
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>>I'm trying to get access to some foxpro data across a a network on a web site.
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>>The anonymous account access for the web site is set to IUSR_machine name but when I look at the permission for the shared drive where the data I want to access is the IUSR account is not one that I can give permissions to.
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>>Any ideas how I can get read access to that data ?
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>>Thanks
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