I have an asp page that saves a file to disk.
Currently it works locally, but I need to save the file to a share and I get permission denied.
I had assumed I could just set the app pool to the user that has access to the folder, but it doesn't seem to work.
How do you make classic asp run as a specific user?
Look at who is running the following:
It should be one of those I believe.
Is the program attempting to go to a share on another computer (or this computer), or a folder on the web server which happens to also be a share? When you access it through the \\server\share notation, you are going to have different issues than through the local drive driveletter:\folder\ notation.
If it is a share on another computer, the account will need to have rights to the share as well as rights to the underlying files and must be a domain account.
IIS Admin - Website Properties - Directory Security - Edit...
By default it's IUSR_MACHINENAME
I believe that by default classic asp will run under the iis user which is IUSR_MachineName. This can be changed in the IIS Manager.
Good references:
It depends on what you are actually doing but you would probably want to avoid giving the whole application a user identity that has network access just to service the needs of this one file.
You can configure in IIS the user identity for anonymous access on that one ASP file, that would be better than setting it for the whole application.
Another option in the intranet environment is to turn off anonymous access for the ASP file and turn on windows integrated access. The clients user account is used for the security context for running the ASP and any subsequent network access it might make.