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• 07-31-2008, 6:19 AM

  grinja Joined on 07-31-2008, 3:53 AM Posts 5

  Application Pool Identity to access a Mapped Drive Reply Contact Hi all, I need to provide access to mapped network drive through a Web server application.A user will log on to a web server application and there is an option for them to upload documents to a specifc mapped drive. I have two tried two options in the Application Pool Properties: 1. Using the predefined network service identity - Access to the directory is not available. 2. Use  Configurable option and specify a domain account (which has access to the Mapped drive) - Accessing the application throws a "Service Unavailable error" I'm very inexperienced with IIS so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. The ultimate goal is to allow a user to get access to that mapped drive.  The hosting server is using Windows Server 2003 , IIS6. *Edit Okay ... it seems that for Point2 the domain account needs to be added to IIS_WPG. I will be trying this out later tonight.

• 07-31-2008, 11:20 PM

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  steve schofield Joined on 06-10-2002, 8:54 PM MI Posts 2,581

  Re: Application Pool Identity to access a Mapped Drive Reply Contact There is no concept of a 'mapped' drive in IIS.  It's a UNC path.  If you use the network service account, it's really the 'machine' account in Active Directory.  Have you checked out this article? It's probably the standard for remote content and IIS 6.  http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/technologies/webapp/iis/remstorg.mspx Steve Schofield Windows Server MVP - IIS http://weblogs.asp.net/steveschofield http://www.IISLogs.com Log archival solution Install, Configure, Forget

• 08-01-2008, 7:27 AM

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  grinja Joined on 07-31-2008, 3:53 AM Posts 5	Re: Application Pool Identity to access a Mapped Drive Reply Contact  Thanks. I would prefer to use the predefined accounts so I'll give your method a try. Thanks also forthe link to the article.

• 08-01-2008, 8:03 AM

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  tomkmvp Joined on 03-20-2003, 10:27 AM Lawrenceville, NJ Posts 4,068	Re: Application Pool Identity to access a Mapped Drive Reply Contact For a better understanding of the issues of mapped drives, see: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/257174 Tom Kaminski IIS MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ http://blogs.iis.net/tomkmvp/ http://www.linkedin.com/pub/8/690/408 http://www.bluesrepublic.org/

• 08-01-2008, 2:33 PM

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  ssg31415926 Joined on 08-01-2007, 12:56 PM Posts 23

  Re: Application Pool Identity to access a Mapped Drive Reply Contact  There's a whole host of other stuff you might need to consider as well.  For example, if you're going to have more than one AppPool, you'll need to sort out authentication with this command (run from AdminScripts folder): cscript adsutil.vbs set w3svc/NTAuthenticationProviders "NTLM" This article will explain why: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/871179 Check out the folder permissions shown in here - many of mine were not right: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/812614 This one is worth knowing: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896861

  Tags: ASP.NETIIS 6.0application poolsNTLMKerberos

• 08-03-2008, 9:15 AM

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  grinja Joined on 07-31-2008, 3:53 AM Posts 5	Re: Application Pool Identity to access a Mapped Drive Reply Contact   Thanks for these links... I'll be doing some reading tonght :)