Re: Run IIS in a domain user context

From: Paul Lynch (paul.lynch_at_nospam.com)
Date: 06/05/04 

Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 14:35:37 +0100

On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 08:57:53 +0100, "Mark Darbyshire"
<NO_SPAM_m_darbyshire@hotmail.com> wrote:

>I'm checking services on remote machines so I can present a service status
>via a web frontend.
>
>Basically, I'm using the System.ServiceProcess() collection - connecting to
>the local machine it's ok but a remote system fails with authentication
>problems. When I say local machine I mean the server that is hosting IIS and
>not the connected client.
>
>I assume the Authentication fail is simply because the page is running
>server side in the context of LocalSystem which I assume the web service is
>running in.
>
>Basically if I change the web service on the server to run in a domain user
>context and give that domain user the right's to the other 3 servers I want
>to monitor then this should work - am I right? Assuming so then which
>service should I change the logon context of? Or is there a far batter way
>that I'm missing?
>
>Hope this explains more,
>
>Thanks,
>
>Mark

Mark,

Refer to this KB article :

HOW TO: Run Applications Not in the Context of the System Account in
IIS
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=319067

Regards,

Paul Lynch
MCSE

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