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I just dealt with a similar issue. You can impersonate a system account to open files on the local computer. Impersonation will mimic the credentials of the specified user. However, to open log files on remote computers from within the app, you need to use delegation. Hope this helps.

Thanks so much. I'm sure this would have worked if my company allowed delegation, but it doesn't look like they do since, when logged in as an Administrator, everything on the delegation tab is disabled. Am I missing something to enable the delegation option? Are there other options for...

Hi, I'm trying to open a log file on a server (that's not the application web server) and display the log in an html or aspx page on client. I've researched several options but have failed mostly due to security permissions. I'm unable to open the file regardless of the process by which I do...

Thanks, this worked, except my company wants the site folder outside the wwwroot folder (security or convention reasons I guess.) So I took your suggestion but created a new application pool. Thanks for the help. d

I've developed an app in Visual Studio 2003 (Basic) then converted to VS 2005. I developed on Windows XP, IIS v5.1, .Net Framework 1.1. I then upgraded to .Net Framework 2.0. I'm trying to deploy the application to a Windows Server 2003, IIS 6.0 and .Net Framework 2.0. If I point the Default...