There's a lot of questions floating around on here and the web, however I couldn't resolve my issue with them.
My app pool user is set to NETWORK SERVICE, and I've verified on the folder that it is has full access (Every permission is checked). However, when I initiate a GET request to download a file it says Access to the path is denied.
I'm using .NET 4 and webforms on IIS6.
So the problem ended up being that the file itself didn't have the NETWORK SERVICE user assigned to it as I dragged the files into that directory without having the web site create them.
I was under the impression that setting the user on a directory would affect files within.
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I have an asp.net application which does the following: loads data about audio files (file name, path and so on) from DB and shows them in table on the page. Application uses windows authentication (this cannot be changed).
I've added html 5 audio controls to my table cells so that users could play audio files without downloading them - actually, I don't want them to be able to download files at all.
Audio files come from two network-shared directories - one is accessible by all domain users, the second one is accessible only to specific user. Audio control requires the src to be a relative url - ok, fine, so I went to IIS manager and created two virtual directories under my application. For the second, highly protected directory, I'd set credentials which should have helped my application to access files.
Result seems quite strange to me: users see audio files from the first (accessible) directory preloaded and can play them; users cannot preload and cannot play files from the second directory with preset credentials.
Problem is definitely not in the audio src itself - it is well-formed. Seems like IIS is trying to access data in the second virtual directory under credentials of current domain user and not the one, whose login and password were set on folder setup.
Is there any way to overcome this problem? Unfortunately, granting access to this directory to all users is not a chance. Changing app pool identity to that same specific user also gave no results. App users and user account for the second folder are all in the same domain.
IIS access file via application pool identity not login user. So when you are running an application with network share directory, please change the app pool identity to a domain user that have permission to access both. Then you can restrict login user permission via authorization rule.
I have 1 service app(asp.net) that will upload txt file.
I would like to upload the file to network share drive.
example of network mapped drive: Z:\HR\hr\t\clock.
If i run the web page throught visual web developer, it can successfully save the file.
but if i run the web page directly via IE, it cannot save.
I already set the network folder for everyone is full control right.
it throw an exception System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: Could not find a part of the path 'Z:\HR\t\clock102528122011113418.txt'.
Thanks
That will be because of Security Contexts I would think.
Running it from VWD runs under your security context, running "directly from IE" will run under a different context (Traditionally, IUSR_MachineName)
One scenario you have an account that has permissions, the other you do not.
I would recommend creating a service account to do the work and give that the least permissions possible and go from there.
I've just installed windows server 2008 r2 along with visual studio and dropbox. I'm using it as a VM for development and dropbox helps me keep my files in sync with other machines.
I've got my site set up in IIS but I'm getting an access denied error when trying to view the site. I've had this before and to get around it in the past I've gone through and added the IIS_User account to the list of permissions to read/modify the files. I assume because the file's have been copied down with drop box the files don't have the necessary permissions. Here's the bugger, I can't batch update the files by modifying permissions on a folder, I'm having to do it right to the file level and even worse, one at a time! I can't have this.
I'm relatively new to 2008 r2 and IIS 7 so I have no idea what's happening here. Can someone explain what is going on and if there's an IIS/file permission setting I can update to resolve it at the top level folder?
I've tried adding anonymous permssions on the website in IIS and I've added permissions on the folder for IIS_User (even Everyone). I have an Administrator account and that's already set to allow me to read/write/modify the files.
This is typically the message I'm getting 'An error occurred loading a configuration file: Access to the path X is denied'.
This is happening on ascx & aspx files as well as config files.
Edits:
The site is visible when debugging from Visual Studio.
The site is operating in Full Trust (internal)
Please help, this is stopping me from working and driving me insane!
By default in IIS 7, websites run as the local system's network account (NetworkService), not as IIS_User.
To verify, in IIS Manager, select the Site in question, click Basic Settings... and check the Application Pool it is assigned to. Then go into Application Pools and check the Identity for that Application Pool. Make sure that user listed is in the ACL.
Adding Everyone to the ACL should work instead, but just in case I would suggest you check the above. Also of course make sure when you set the ACL to check the box for resetting inheritance on all subfolders, if that is appropriate for your application.
You could also try setting the identity of the application pool to a local (or domain) user you have created which has access to your application directory.
Hope that helps.
Regarding whether other identities would work for your app pool, that depends entirely on whether those identities have permissions to all the files and/or databases and other resources you application needs to access. Right now you have the application running under your user account, which is generally not recommended. IIS has your password cached, and if you change it, your application will stop working until you update the application pool configuration.
As far as setting NTFS permissions, it can get tricky. Once you have disabled permissions inheritance, that file or folder will need to be updated individually every time you need a permission change. The flip side of this is that you cannot remove inherited entries on an ACL, you can only add to them. However you can design a strategy that offers a baseline level of permission at the root of a file structure, and then add permissions to subfolders/files.
In order to check & reset inheritance on a folder, go into its properties, security tab, click advanced, then click Edit. You can see whether this folder inherits permissions from its parent, and optionally wipe out all subfolder/file permissions and enable inheritance on all child folders & files.
Hope this helps.
Im trying to use the fileupload control. Im using Visual Web Developer Express on my desktop.
My web application is working fine except I cant use the fileUpload control. I get the following error:
ERROR: Access to the path (My_Directory) is denied
I searched and it appears to be a permissions problem. So I attempted to add the user ASPNET and give appropriate permissions to the directory, however, I was unable to add user "ASPNET". User "ASPNET" was not found.
So then I followed the following directions to add user ASPNET via Control Panel > Administration > Computer management. So now I was able to add user ASPNET to the directory and give appropriate permissions but I still got the above error.
http://p2p.wrox.com/net-web-services/5918-creating-aspnet-user.html
Any ideas on why I cant access the directory?
If you're using Vista/Windows 7/Win2003/Win2008, the user you need is the Network Service account. You can verify by seeing what user your application pool is running under.
Grant the proper permissions to that account (if indeed it's the account that your application pool is running under) and you'll be golden. Note also that with Windows 7 and Win2008, the default account could be the ApplicationPoolIdentity, which you can find out more information about at http://forums.iis.net/t/1156692.aspx. Regardless, you can simply switch the account that your application pool is running under to the Network Service account to verify that that is the issue.
Ever figure this out? If you're overwriting files check to make sure they aren't set to read-only.
I've handled these permissions plenty before and had tried everything in the book and on this site and others (I'm on Win7, IIS7.5 also). Sometimes it's the silly little things...
No matter what I do such as give Network Service and the ASP.NET account full rights to the folder that contains the image, I am still getting this error for a System.IO.File.Move. Anyone know what other accounts I may be missing here? Network Service is the account running the app pool under which this site runs on and I gave Network Service full rights to the entire folder.
I've tried everything. I gave Network Service and the machinename\aspnet full permissions to the folder that contains this .jpg. I'm testing this code and this move on localhost...my developer machine.
Have you tried using SysInternals FileMon now part of Process Monitor. You can use it to watch for the file access events or the access denied event.
It might be because you write into some other folder that is not under the ASP.NET application (eg %TEMP% folder or something). In this case the account used is IUSR_MACHINENAME which represents anonymous user.
You either need to impersonate, use another folder or give write privileges to IUSR_XXX (which I don't think is a good idea) to deal with that.
On the machine hosting the shared drive, make sure to set things up under both these tabs:
Sharing -> Permissions
Security
Most of us deal with the Security tab for getting IIS stuff working, but it was the former that was giving me the same issue with the .MoveTo() method. (It could read, just not move).
To further complicate matters, I also had the directory shared as multiple names - make sure to check the permissions for each shared name.