On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, David Landgren wrote: > I don't do much Windows system administration. If you could point me > in the right direction to give the user permission to access the > network I'd be much obliged. Should I be using secpol.msc or > something else?
Right-click on "My Computer" and select "Manage". Expand "Local Users and Groups" and select "Users". This should give you a start. But frankly I'm not sure if you should start granting additional access rights to IIS processes if you don't have a good understanding of Windows administration. You can easily create big security risks. There are reasons why the IUSR_* account doesn't have network access. Ideally you should delegate the functionality that needs this to a locally running service and pass any requests on to that service. I understand that this is a lot more work, and that you can shortcut this by granting more rights to the IUSR_* user. But remember that *every* CGI script will now have these right, and a security vulnerability in any of them will now put your network at risk. Cheers, -Jan _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Web mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
