File Access Via IIS - ASP - COM

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Date: 04/28/03 

Date: 27 Apr 2003 19:23:22 -0700

(using iis 5.0 on win2k/sp3)

i am seeing a problem that i have tracked down to a possible IIS
setting (either with the anonymous user account or something inside
the iis settings itself).

my asp page initializes an ATL COM object. the first thing the COM
method does is a WINEXEC( "c:\MyTest.exe \\my_share\file.txt" ),
which just opens the file and prints the contents to a debug window.

for some reason, i cannot get access to \\my_share\file.txt (which
exists on another machine). if i get a local file, it works fine, i
get the file contents and write it out.
but when i try it from ANYWHERE outside this box my webserver is
running on, i get an access violation or file not found (depending on
if i use the UNC or if i a mapped drive, respectively).

basically: i don't have access to files for read/write that aren't on
the webserver. i have compared my settings in the other environments
where this app works and made sure they are equal.
i have also built a test app which calls the COM method and it works
just fine (when i don't go through IIS).

is there something else that i could check? anything at all??

thx!

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