I am running IIS 7 on Windows Server 2008 R2 with PHP 5.4. One of my PHP scripts is trying to access a file on a protected network share using a UNC path. How can I change the IIS service account to an account that has permission to access the share? This is really easy to do on Apache HTTP server (you just change it), but it's not clear how to do with IIS. What can I do?
Update:
I was able to get things working using the "Connect As" option in the "Basic Settings" of my website and then specifying an account that has access to the network share. It appears that my problem is related to this question:
https://serverfault.com/questions/366234/iis-identities-application-pool-vs-connect-as-in-basic-settings
For IIS 7 running on Windows Server 2008 R2 ... In the IIS Manager, select the Application Pool under which your Web Site is running.
Click "Advanced Settings". There will be an entry for Identity (it is under the Process Model section). Click it, provide credentials for your account that has permission to access the share.
UPDATE
You should make sure that if you are using an Active Directory Domain Account, you provided that correctly under Identity for the running App Pool. For example, MYDOMAIN\myAccount.
After making this change, you will need to do the following:
Stop the Web Site.
Recycle your Application Pool.
Start the Web Site.
UPDATE II
From the comment discussion on this answer, #HydroPowerDeveloper was able to get the PHP script to be able to access the network share via UNC path using WebSite -> Basic Settings -> "Connect As" and setting the credentials there.
In the past, I have always used the approach of setting Identity via Application Pool and that has allowed my code to access Network shares via UNC path.
However, all of the sites/applications I have deployed on IIS are .NET based WCF or ASPX sites.
I would speculate (but am not 100% certain on this, would need research/testing to confirm) that the Identity specified in the Application Pool is used by executing .NET code, whereas the "Connect As" is used by the PHP script.
Generally the Application Pool is set using the least amount of privileges as possible.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff647402.aspx
The easiest route is to allow access to the current IIS account.
In Explorer, navigate to the shared directory.
Right Click -> Properties -> Security
If you don't see the expected IIS user in the list (Group or user names), edit and add the user as required.
I used "NETWORK SERVICE" -> Check names.
The detailed instructions are on that site.
In this way, the system is still restricted, we're ONLY allowing access to specific directories, we don't need to create any new users, we don't need to recycle the application pool and we don't need to perform any nifty impersonation code.
To resurrect an old question...
I've just been setting up a Win 2016 server that uses some Perl to access a UNC share. I set the Application Pool to an account that I verified had the correct permissions on that share. I then set up my site to 'Connect as...' (under 'Basic Settings') the same user. I still couldn't get access working.
Much head scratching later, I realised that my 'Virtual Directory', cgi-bin, was running under the original 'pass through' account. I then set up the virtual directory to 'Connect as...' the same account as the site and the application pool and, bingo, it all works fine.
So, remember to update any Virtual Directories as well as the site and App Pool...
Related
This question:
IIS application pool access to remote directory on network ask how to allow iis to have the ability to access a file on a network drive. The answer is to set up a user with the appropriate rights and set the application pool identity to that user. We've done that and when we restart the app pool we get a 503 error on our web app.
It appears that the app isn't actually starting.
Here are more details which may help you analyze the problem:
This is Windows Server 2008 R2, iis 7
Our username is abc123\_svc_OSAT (Domain name isn't actually abd123 but I need to obscure it rather than risk publishing internal company information)
As abc123\_svc_OSAT I can map a drive to \\FPIAPPS01\Logs which is a directory on a network server so we know that this user has network access.
In iis we click on our app pool, select Advanced Settings, select Identity, Select the .. button, select "Custom Account" and set it to the user abc123\_svc_OSAT and use the proper password. We then stop and start that application pool.
When looking at the app in a browser we get a 503 error. Checking the logs at C:\inetpub\logs\LogFiles\W3SVC1 we don't see any error. However, the application appears not to have actually started.
Does abc123_svc_OSAT need a specific permission which we may be
missing?
Is there any other place with a log file which we should
look to get a better idea of what is causing the problem?
Thank you.
Does abc123_svc_OSAT have access to directory that hosts your ASPX files? The log files you are looking at are only for logging access to your website. You will want to check the event viewer to see the actual IIS error.
We ended up making the user an administrator and that worked. That's probably too broad for sufficient security rights. We'll keep looking. But it does show that the issue was somehow related to user roles rather than a password issue.
This questions has been asked, A LOT, but I've yet to figure out a proper solution. I've got a Windows Server 2012 server with of course IIS 8. I'm setting up a very, very, simple website on it with an HTML file that has Hello World in it. On the folder for the website I have the following permissions set up:
SYSTEM (local account, Full Access)
Administrators (local group, Full Access)
FTP (domain account, Full Access)
NAME_OF_APPPOOL (virtual account, Full Access)
So, with all of these permissions I still get a 401.3 - Unauthorized error from IIS. What am I missing in all of this?
The only thing that's made the website accessible so far was a desperate attempt by putting Everyone with read-only permissions. I think we can all agree that's just dumb as far as security goes...
Update
This is what the Application Pool Identity is set to at the moment.
Check #5 to make sure the AppPool the site is using is actually set to use the Identity you are adding NTFS permissions for.
Specify an Identity for an Application Pool (IIS 7)
Open IIS Manager.
In the Connections pane, expand the server node and click Application Pools.
On the Application Pools page, select the application pool for which you want to specify an identity, and then click Advanced Settings in the Actions pane.
For the Identity property, click the ... button to open the Application Pool Identity dialog box.
If you want to use a built-in account, select the Built-in account option and select an account from the list.
So, since I was trying to access an HTML page (static content) it appears that IIS doesn't use the AppPool identity for static content... (double-U, T, and F?) So, to make it work you have to add IUSR as referenced here: IIS 8 401.3 with ACL and static content. Anyway, it works now, I'm just sooooo looking forward to the day when I put MVC on that site and it starts failing, again...
I am trying to deploy an asp.net 4 app to a new microsoft server 2008 R2
I have set up the application as I have done dozens of times before and set the folder permissions appropriately.
I have tried setting the application pool name directly to have write permissions
I have tried setting IUSR, IIS_IUSRS, NETWORK SERVICE and Users.
I have confirmed that windows authentication is disabled and anonymous is enabled as well as forms authentication is enabled. Logging in works fine i can access all pages normally except if i try to write to the folder. Then a password is required box pops up which looks like windows authentication (even though its disabled)
Every post here states and in my past experience says if I set the folder permissions for the defaultidentity application pool it should work, but for some reason this server wont let me do it!
Any help would be most appreciated.
Welp this turns out to be a really weird one. For some reason when SQL reporting services is installed it reserves the folder name "Reports" in any IIS Web application folder regardless of whether your actually using Reporting services. Its not created by default or anything, but if you happen to create folder titled "Reports" dont expect to access anything from it. After many hours of frustration it turns out it's a random reservation which doesn't throw any error just somehow overrides your authentication protocol to use windows authentication for their reserved folder.
Thanks Microsoft!
I'm setting up our server so we can install an ASP.Net web application on it.
I right clicked Sites in the IIS7 Manager and selected Add Virtual Directory and I clicked the Test Settings button, this messages is displayed:
The server is configured to use pass-through authentication with a built-in
account to access the specified physical path. However, IIS Manager cannot
verify whether the built-in account has access. Make sure that the application
pool identity has Read access to the physical path. If this server is joined to
a domain, and the application pool identity is NetworkService or LocalSystem,
verify that <domain>\<computer_name>$ has Read access to the physical path.
Then test these settings again.
The message does not tell us how to do any of these things.
The server I'm setting up has Windows7 Home Premium installed on it. The computer is set up with all defaults set and has a computer name such as MyComputer-PC (not the real name). There is no domain set up.
Can you tell us how to do what is described in the message?
1) Go to IIS, click on the IIS entry that holds your virtual directory. On the right click on Basic Setting to see which appliatino pool it's using.
2) Go to IIS, go to application Pools. Right click on your application pool and check the advance setting -> Identity property to find out which user it's using.
3) Go to the folder that your IIS Entry maps to, make sure that user is added to this directory. If you want to give it write permission, give it write. Otherwise, make give it read & execute is fine.
The message is pretty clear in what needs to be done. Go to the Application Pool section of IIS and open the advanced settings of the default Application pool. Check what username is specified in the Identity property.
Go to the location where you are physically storing your virtual directory and go to the folder properties -> Security. Ensure that the user has the appropriate access.
Basically, you can ignore this message if you don't plan to write files to your site directory.
This message means that IIS can't check if it's system windows account has enough permissions on your site folder.
Setup
There is an IIS 6 application running in a .NET 2.0 App Pool on Server-A. IIS 7 Server-B needs to host that same code-base under a different URL. I created a virtual directory under Server-B's website to the network path of the application on Server-A. I've enabled this virtual directory on Server-B as an application running in its own .NET 2.0 App Pool in Classic Mode. Both app pools run as the same domain account that has access to that folder.
Issue
When accessing the site from Server-A it works fine. Accessing it from Server-B however generates the infamous "Required permissions cannot be acquired." error.
I have been trying to find a solution to this problem for two days. The two most common solutions have been to check the CLR Trust level on the Server-B box or to set the Load User Profile property on the App Pool to "True". Since I have full administrative rights I set the Trust level to Full and set the profile sitting to "True". Strongly naming all the assemblies the application and throwing them in the GAC is not where I want to go.
I'm sure I'm just missing some configuration somewhere. Any ideas? Thanks.
We have had a similar problem once.
In our case the user that was the identity of the app pool have never logged on to the server. Therefore, there was no local user profile, therefore there was a problem when the system tried to use the profile.
As a test try and set the identity of the app pool to the admin account you use to log in with.
Manually verify that user can access that share. Try logging into windows as that user and then accessing that share (or fake it with something like a "runas /User:{Domain\UserName} net use {\server\share}").
Also try loading ShareMonitor wherever the files actually live. It should tell you what user account is trying to access a given share. It might not be the account you think it is. I cannot recall if it was this program or not, but I have used something very similar in the past to figure out a really odd permission problem.
That should determine if it is a file access problem. If it isn't, then all I can say is to make sure you have ASP.NET enabled (on windows server it is a separate option).
Also check out the file permissions on your "Temporary ASP.NET Files" directory. I've had to explicitly add users write access to that before to get things working.
in my case my IIS App Pool had LoadUserProfile=false, so it was not loading the profile of the app pool's Identify (a domain account). This caused this unable to acquire permissions even though my Webroot files/folders (including /bin) had correct permissions. Setting LoadUserProfile=true fixed the issue for my setup.
I would set that application pools identity attribute (in advanced settings) as administrator. That way, you application will work on the server, just like it works on the local setup.