Access Denied Message on Web Service Folder 1

[emblewembl]

Hi,

I have had a web service running successfully on our test server for several weeks with no problems - it builds pdf docs out of data once per day. I moved it to the live sever yesterday and I keep getting an error message when it tries to create a new PDF file in the specified folder. I am using impersonate="false", so therefore the web service should be using the aspnet machine account, right? So... I added the aspnet machine account to the folder in question, and gave the aspnet account write permissions but I am still getting the same error as follows:

System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path 'C:\Websites\PDFWebService\pdf\Manual\20060720.pdf' is denied.
   at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
   at System.IO.FileStream.Init(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, Int32 rights, Boolean useRights, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options, SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES secAttrs, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy)
   at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode)
   at PDF.ServerPDF.MakePDFFromLiveData(ArrayList arrMeetings, String documentReference, String pdfFolderPath)

Is is possible that it is not using the aspnet account? Has anyone found that they've had to restart the server or IIS in order to get the permissions to take effect? Any other ideas.... this is driving me mad!! For your info the relevant part of my config file is:

<system.web>
	<compilation debug="true"/>
	<authentication mode="None"/>
        <customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="GenericErrorPage.htm">
        <error statusCode="403" redirect="NoAccess.htm" />
        <error statusCode="404" redirect="FileNotFound.htm" />
        </customErrors>
	</system.web>

Hope someone can help!!

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[ca8msm]

What version of Windows is your live server?


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[emblewembl]

It's running Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition Build 3790 SP1, and IIS 6.0 .

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[ca8msm]

Try setting the permissions for the NETWORK SERVICE account


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[emblewembl]

Thank you thank you, that fixed it! What exactly is the network service account?

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[ca8msm]

It's the account that ASP.NET applications run under in Windows 2003 (other versions such as XP use ASPNET).


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