It is a matter of permissions. You have permissions to map the drive
but the ASPNET user doesn't have access to it.
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian Qing
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In Windows 2003, I mapped a network drive G:. In ASP Net, there
is a code snippet:
>
> Dim a, b as boolean
> Dim objDOM as new XmlDocument
>
> a = System.IO.File.Exists("C:\LocalFolders\SomeFiles.xml")
> b = System.IO.File.Exists("G:\NetFolders\SomeFiles.xml")
> objDOM.load("G:\NetFolders\SomeFiles.xml")
>
> C: is the local hard drive. Variable 'a' returns 'true' and
variable 'b' returns 'false'. This is run under IIS. ASP .Net
worker process is impersonated under 'myPowerUser', which is member
of Power Users group.
>
> If I create a small windows application and copy/paste the same
code snippet and run, of course, under my windows logon account,
which is member of Administrators. Then, Variable 'a'
returns 'true' and variable 'b' returns 'true'.
>
> However, if I assign 'myPowerUser' to be member of Administrators,
it still does not work.
>
> The whole thing works on the another Windows 2000 server, but not
this Windows 2003 server. Does anyone know what is going on?
Thanks.
>
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