Re: How do I give ASP.NET process network credentials?

From: Jay Warmack (jwarmack@weblandingzone.net)
Date: 10/24/02 

From: "Jay Warmack" <jwarmack@weblandingzone.net>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 22:21:45 -0700

In web.config you should be able to use:

<identity impersonate="false" userName="domain\localuser"
password="password"/>

"Joseph Geretz" <jgeretz@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:uZ00wfueCHA.2128@tkmsftngp12...
> 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.
>
> - Joe Geretz -
>
>

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