Steve, your 1 assumption was a wrong one. The COM+ app should be on the Web Services machine - that should fix it!
>Claude,
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>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.
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>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.)
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>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"
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>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 ...)
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>Can you think of anything else I should look at?
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>Assumption I have made: (and please excuse my ignorance here :-) )
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>... 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)
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>Additional question: My test environment is a Workgroup, not a Domain. Shouldn't this work reguardless?
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>Thanks,
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>-Steve Kanski
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