I am new to ISS, and must admit Windows security is a bit of a mystery to me
also, but I'm trying to write a .NET Web Service that programatically
creates new Virtual Directories as required off an existing pre-defined
Virtual Directory.

The service works fine when I edit the "Default Web Site" Directory Security
Anonymous access settings to run as my own (admin rights) user, but I don't
really want to grant everything under the entire web site my rights, so I
put it back to IUSER_MyComputerName, and instead set the Directory Security
settings of my pre-defined Virtual Directory. The service then fails with
"Access is denied".

Am I misunderstanding something?


BTW: I'm running IIS 5.1 locally under Windows XP Pro SP2.

Any assistance much appreciated,
Mike Warden

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It's alright - I discovered that just creating subfolders off the phyical
folder of the Virtual Directory automatically makes it available for
downloading, so I don't need to make each one a new Virtual Directory.

I did say I was new to IIS   :-)

Mike Warden

"Mike Warden" <mikew@estimation.co.uk> wrote in message
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>I am new to ISS, and must admit Windows security is a bit of a mystery to
>me also, but I'm trying to write a .NET Web Service that programatically
>creates new Virtual Directories as required off an existing pre-defined
>Virtual Directory.
>
> The service works fine when I edit the "Default Web Site" Directory
> Security Anonymous access settings to run as my own (admin rights) user,
> but I don't really want to grant everything under the entire web site my
> rights, so I put it back to IUSER_MyComputerName, and instead set the
> Directory Security settings of my pre-defined Virtual Directory. The
> service then fails with "Access is denied".
>
> Am I misunderstanding something?
>
>
> BTW: I'm running IIS 5.1 locally under Windows XP Pro SP2.
>
> Any assistance much appreciated,
> Mike Warden

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