Thank you John and Dean for your feedback. The CF script needs to write the contents of a web form to a folder on another server so that an application on that server can read in the form results.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Mason Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 1:50 PM To: discussion@acfug.org Subject: RE: [ACFUG Discuss] CF Service Account Dean said it and I completely agree. Be very careful not to use the default local system account for this or on a AD account. A web app really doesn't need high level permissions. If you can share why you would need to access shared drives, etc. Maybe we can advise a better way. On the question itself, yes you can change this to an AD (active directory) account that has permissions to the local server and those shared drives. The second method would only happen if you didn't have AD on. John Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 770.337.8363 www.FusionLink.com <http://www.fusionlink.com/> - ColdFusion and Flex hosting Now offering ColdFusion 8 Enterprise hosting FREE Subversion hosting _____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Saxon Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 12:22 PM To: discussion@acfug.org Subject: [ACFUG Discuss] CF Service Account By default the CF service runs as a System account. What is the best practice to allow this service to access all areas of the web server and other server shares? Here are some ideas I considered: Scenario 1: Creating a domain account for the service with that belongs to the local Admin group for the host server. Scenario 2: Creating a local account on the host and shared servers with the same name and make that account a member of the web server's admin group and give that local account access to the share on the remote server. Is either of these possibilities recommended? If not, are there any suggestions? Take care, Rob --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rob Saxon Director Web Management Mercer University 478-301-5550 ------------------------------------------------------------- Annual Sponsor - Figleaf Software <http://www.figleaf.com> To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by FusionLink <http://www.fusionlink.com> ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- Annual Sponsor - Figleaf Software <http://www.figleaf.com> To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by FusionLink <http://www.fusionlink.com> ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- Annual Sponsor FigLeaf Software - http://www.figleaf.com To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com -------------------------------------------------------------
