Can't Create or Save File to Network Share in Visual Studio

Question

I'm not certain when this problem started occuring, but it was approximately a few weeks ago when I upgraded from Visual Studio 2008 to 2010. I am on Windows XP Professional. The share is on a server running Windows Server 2003. I have a solution which contains a web site (accessed via UNC path, network share) and some class projects that reside on my local workstation. When I open a file from the website, and try to alter and save the file, I get the following error:

" Cannot access this file. Check security privileges over the network drive."

I've checked privileges on the root folder and I do indeed have full control. Could anyone give me any insight as to what I could be missing?

Answer 1

Are you running Windows Vista or Windows 7 with User Account Control (UAC) enabled? If so, Visual Studio 2010 requires administrator permissions to do certain tasks, including IIS management and network share saving.

Try opening Visual Studio 2010 with the Run as Administrator command. Hope that solves your problem.

Answer 2

Turns out a sysadmin removed all permissions and user profiles from a chunk of servers and forgot to inform me. Thanks for the insight, all.