Re: Access Denied - Network Service vs Local Service

From: mangia (mangia_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/23/04

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    Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:35:39 -0700

    I have a Windows 2003 Sever that I have had running fine several .NET
    websites for over a year now.

    Two weeks ago I decided to change my anonymous FTP site access from
    'granted' and denied' IP addresses to 'not anonymous’ and require username
    password access. I created an ‘FTPGuest’ user account and gave it the file
    permissions I
    wanted. Tested the FTP site access and it works fine from within the LAN
    and/or from outside the WAN.

    However, now when I attempt to access my website I receive an IE webpage
    that ONLY SAYS “Access is denied.”, and nothing else. I see no error or
    information in the Event logs. I spent most of the afternoon playing with
    Permissions, User Accounts and Directory Security settings, but nothing has
    helped.

    Chris

    "Ken Schaefer" wrote:

    > Well, it seems that Local Service has access to something that Network
    > Service does not.
    >
    > What exactly are you getting an Access Denied on? What is the exact error
    > message?
    >
    > Cheers
    > Ken
    >
    > "mangia" <mangia@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
    > news:21556E9A-50EE-4816-BF8E-8FBCB0332123@microsoft.com...
    > >I have been struggling with my ASP.NET (V1.1 sp1) websites getting an
    > >'Access
    > > Denied' message.
    > >
    > > I have track down the problem (I think) to the IIS Connection Pools. Most
    > > MS Info suggests keeping the 'Identity' set as 'Network Service' to
    > > provide
    > > greater security.
    > >
    > > However, I have found that if I change the Identity to 'Local Service' my
    > > websites now work! What am I missing? Why does setying connection pool
    > > 'Identity' set as 'Network Service' cause an 'Access Denied' message?
    > >
    > > Thanks for your help!
    >
    >
    >

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