Claude,

I am struggling with the same problem others experiences, i.e., attemting to get a web service access to a database on a Network share on the LAN.

I followed the steps you outlined in setting up a COM+ app for account impersonization. The setup seemed to go smoothly ( yes - I see my COM+ application icon revolving in the components pane.)

However, I still cannot access a LAN drive from the web service. When the web service code hits the line containg the OPEN DATABASE command, I get the error "File: '\\est\ids_old\data\idsdata.dbc' does not exist"

As a test, I even tried selecting the server's 'administrator' account as the account the COM+ application is to run under (did this to eliminate possibility of security/permissions possibilities as the cause ...)

Can you think of anything else I should look at?

Assumption I have made: (and please excuse my ignorance here :-) )

... I do this COM+ application setup on the Win2000 PC on which the share is located, correct? (in other words, it is done on the target machine, not the web services server)

Additional question: My test environment is a Workgroup, not a Domain. Shouldn't this work reguardless?

Thanks,

-Steve Kanski