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>>To give permissions on the physical path, login as a user with admin rights to this path and open its properties from the right-click menu. From there you should be able to open the Permissions settings and add the IUSR account.
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>>Are you using a dsn-less connection? (a connection string) Or is this being used directly on a COM object?
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>>If you are using this syntax directly on the ASP, you might need to use Server.MapPath() to get to the physical path. IUSR still needs permissions to it though.
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>I'm using a dsn-less connection.

Then maybe Server.MapPath is what you need, and probably the permissions for the IUSR account.