sorry I didn't read all of your post, I see your final paragraph asking if you must do this, and the answer is yes. however do not run CF as an administrator as this will open up your security and allow every cfm page to run with administrator access, you need to run it as a limited user that can only do what you need it to do.
see this security white paper http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/pdfs/coldfusion_8_product_security_brief.pdf Russ On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Russ Michaels <r...@michaels.me.uk> wrote: > > If you are just using the default installation and running cf as "system" > then you will have problems access network paths. > You need to set CF to run under a user account that have network access. > > Russ > > > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 5:40 PM, David McGuigan > <davidmcgui...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> I've triple checked that an empty folder on a 2nd server in the same >> datacenter allows full write permissions for any type of user, and have it >> mapped from the CF server. But when I run cfdirectory calls, for lists it >> returns an empty query even if there are subfolders or files there, for >> rename calls it claims that the target subfolder doesn't exist, and for >> create calls it simply errors: the specified directory could not be >> created. >> >> Is there some best practice way to set this up with CF? Do I have to >> configure the windows service of the CF box to run as an identical user to >> one on the recipient box? If so other than making sure it's an >> administrator >> is there anything else I need to do? >> >> Thanks guys. >> >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:346182 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
