Access to path denied error.

[Kevin Quigley]

Hi,

I have a configuration file which stores sql server connection details
and some other application data, stored in a directory. When I try to
access this file in my code, I get the following error....

Access to the path "D:\WEBSERVER\WeeklyReport\Config\Accounts.Config" is
denied.

I have gave the ASPNET user full permissions on the directory and
impersonate is set to false.

Any help would be greatfully appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[Chris Jackson]

Special rules apply to configuration files, which prevent them from being
read. This is to ensure that somebody can't type in the URL of your config
file and read the connection strings from it. Instead of creating your own
and working around access issues, why not just use web.config, which is
specifically crafted for ASP.NET and has support in the class library? Then,
you can access values as:

System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["settingName"]

 

[Kevin Quigley]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply Chris, I do usually use the web.config file for
connection values, but this problem has been annoying me.

After having this problem I then created a simple web app to read a file
from a folder within the web app.....

string fileName = HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("test/test.txt");
StreamReader sr = File.OpenText(fileName);

I created a folder 'test' and gave the aspnet user full access
permissions. When I ran the code I got the 'access to the path ..... is
denied' error page. I then gave read permissions to the 'Everyone' group
and it worked okay.

Again, for this app, impersonate is set to false.

Any ideas how this is happening?

Thanks again for your help.

Kevin.

 

[Russ]

Kevin,
Did you resolve this issue? I am having the same problem.

 

[Harry Simpson]

TRY:
string fileName = HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("test.txt");
StreamReader sr = File.OpenText(fileName);

This should work.

Harry Simpson

 

[Simon Aspden]

Kevin,

A couple of possibilities for this sort of problem:

1) Is the IIS server a domain controller?
See the following article.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315158

2) Is the IIS server a Windows XP Server? In this case the identity of the
process will be Network User and not ASP NET.

Simon

 

[Kevin Quigley]

Hi,

Thanks for the replies and apologies for not responding for so long,
I've been off for the past two weeks.

The problem was that the account the asp.net applications were running
under was not the ASPNET user. Instead it was a IWAM_ account. The
problem was then easily resolved by giving this IWAM_ account the
required permissions.

To view the account the application is running under you can use the
following :

System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name

Thanks again.

Kevin.