Hi, Bob-

>>I have an ASP.NET application that has been running on the same server as the data that I connect to so I've been able to specify the physical drive and not a mapped drive for my data path.
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>>It looks like the file and web server will be divided up on to two servers (yea!) and I know I *think* I should be able to use a UNC path, but I'm having a complete brain spasm and don't trust that's correct. A reality check would be greatly appreciated.

>I don't see why not... however, you are going to have to run your web server service as a domain account or impersonate a domain account. Otherwise there is no way to give it rights to the data.
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>Oh... there is one other way.... set up the same local account on both machines with both the same password, and run your web server under than account.

Okay, so for example, both boxes will need to have the ASPNET user account, which would make sense.

I'll report back on how this proceeds (in case anyone's interested). Thanks for the advise.