>>I am creating a VFP COM object which is having some difficulty. I am doing a SET PATH to my data directory. If the SET PATH is to one of my local drives (like: D:\mysys\data), it works fine. However, if I made a drive to my D: drive, and do a SET PATH to P:\mysys\data, it says, 'file not found'.
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>>If I specified the file like this: use P:\mysys\data\mytable.dbf, I get 'file access is denied'.
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>>I am using this COM object in ASP, and it appears to only happen there. If I do any of these techniques in VFP, they all work. I have also tried use \\MyMachine\mysys\data (no drive mapping, only sharing).
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>>I assume this is a permissions problem, but I have tried setting permission everywhere (in IIS, in DCOMCNFG, in Sharing, etc.). Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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>The problem is likely that the userid in effect when the ASP page is executing doesn't have the necessary access; the userid would be either IUSR_anonymous or IUSR_MACHINENAME (eg if the name of the server is MYSERVER, IUSR_MYSERVER) and that account needs permissions. I'd stringly advise that you pick up a copy of Rick Strahl's Internet Applications with Visual FoxPro 6.0 which goes into considerable detail about this and other related issues.


Yes, I have Rick's book... And, yes, I have a problem w/permissions. I still don't know exactly what the resolution is. If I set the Anonymous User ID to something other than IUSER_MACHINENAME (like my own login which has administrator priv's), then it works just fine. Obviously I don't want to give IUSR_MACHINENAME admin rights. So I tried giving it access to the drive and/or the directory, and it still didn't work...