How do I give ASP.NET process network credentials?
From: Joseph Geretz (jgeretz@nospam.com)
Date: 10/24/02
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From: "Joseph Geretz" <jgeretz@nospam.com> Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 19:01:21 -0400
I have a Source Safe database installed on my Win2K 'domain controller'. A
Source Safe database is not a database in the traditional sense of the word.
It is actually a file system folder structure. Source Safe workstation users
access this 'database' via a folder share or mapped drive. The VSS database
is installed on a machine called Dimension2.
I have written an ASP.NET process (web services) which interacts with the
VSS API in order to access the VSS database on dimension. These web services
are hosted under IIS on a member server named Dimension. I was finding that
if I logged on locally to Dimension and ran the VSS Win32 Explorer client, I
was able to successfully access the VSS database on Dimension2. However, the
ASP.NET code was unable to access this database.
I changed the ASP.NET username in the processmodel section of machine.config
to SYSTEM. Still no success. So I made the following changes to the
web.config file at the root of the web service site.
Authentication: Windows
Impersonation: true
Now the code runs successfully, since the ASP.NET code is now running using
my interactive session network credentials. This was a useful test to
isolate the problem and to confirm that the problem is based on credentials
and security. However this is no solution for a production environment. I
need to allow this to work for anonymous users coming in over the Internet
without domain credentials.
How can I set this up? Can ASPNET on Dimension be set up as a network
account? Can a new network account be created and ASP.NET or my web services
be configured to use this special account? Or is there a different way in
which this is typically done?
Thanks for your help.
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