Re: IIS6 ASP Crystal DLL

From: Sunil DHURVE (SunilDHURVE_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 05/06/05 

Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 15:30:01 -0700

hello david,
thanks for all your support,
I hope I can get some answer from bloody Crystal people.
once again thanks and talk to you later
sunil

"David Wang [Msft]" wrote:

> No, that's a bug in Crystal reports because it assumes it is running with a
> user credential that can write to that folder. Crystal support should be
> able to tell you which user identity it is using to do that work.
>
> Your basic choices are:
> 1. Change ACL on the temp directory to allow access to the user account
> Crystal runs with
> 2. Change process identity to have write access to the temp directory
> 3. Change Crystal to use a user identity that has write access to the temp
> directory
>
> None of the choices should be made by you. Crystal reports needs to tell you
> what is the supported and secure way to configure for their software's
> needs. My guess is that #1 should be preferred. #2 is a very poor choice,
> and #3 potentially requires new code from Crystal to handle.
>
> --
> //David
> IIS
> http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
> //
> "Sunil DHURVE" <SunilDHURVE@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:87A1A994-F59F-4889-BD0C-320E90793663@microsoft.com...
> Hello David,
> thanks for your response,
> Ok I tell you something when crystal exports the report it writes some temp
> files into c:\windows\temp which it is doing successfully in IIS6 with IIS5
> isolation mode,
> when I turn on the IIS6 worker model, it somehow doesnt have permission to
> write the temp files into the c:\windows\temp folder, do you know how can I
> set the permission for the w3wp.exe process so that it can write temp files
> into c:\windows\temp.
> thanks for all your help!
> regards
> sunil
>
> "David Wang [Msft]" wrote:
>
> > Sorry, but I think that you need to ask support staff for Crystal Report:
> > 1. Whether they support running on IIS6
> > 2. If yes to #1, what configuration is necessary
> >
> > If you follow their steps and it does not work, then they need to show
> there
> > is an IIS6 bug for it to be an IIS6 issue. Otherwise, it is simply
> > misconfiguration of their own product -- and they are responsible for
> that.
> >
> >
> > IIS6 has no such lockdown that you are imagining. Neither the Crystal
> Report
> > DLL, nor FSO, nor your VB6 DLL are considered "part of IIS6" and given
> > special treatment to write to the filesystem - they are all considered COM
> > objects. If you configure them all to load in the same application and one
> > can write to the filesystem, then they can all write to the filesystem.
> >
> > Bottom line: I think you are doing a whole bunch of work that Crystal
> > Designer support team is supposed to handle for you, and I do not see an
> IIS
> > issue here at all. Crystal Designer is obligated to make this work for you
> > or prove it is an IIS6 bug.
> >
> > --
> > //David
> > IIS
> > http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
> > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights.
> > //
> > "Sunil DHURVE" <Sunil DHURVE@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:DFA20032-F753-460B-8202-AED20366B39D@microsoft.com...
> > Hello David
> > Thanks for your reply,
> > you know what I already asked them and they say use Crystal Report 9 or 10
> > and I tried both of them but it still just creates the 0KB file and doesnt
> > go
> > ahead!
> > when I use IIS5 everything works fine, David, I am thinking there should
> be
> > some way in IIS6 to tell him that please let this DLL export the report
> > because of tightened security.
> > I checked all the permission and IWPG_ user all the required permission,
> > IIS6 is able to write to text file using FSO because it is its own DLL,
> > while
> > Crystal Designer Library is not by IIS6 so I am thinkikng more towards
> > solving it from IIS point of view.
> > Please let me know how can I use external DLL in IIS6 say for example the
> > DLL created in VB6.
> > Regards and many thanks!
> > Sunil
> > "David Wang [Msft]" wrote:
> >
> > > You will need to obtain support for the Crystal designer runtime library
> > as
> > > to whether it supports IIS6 and if so, with what configuration.
> > >
> > > If you are seeing a file of 0KB show up, it looks like an issue totally
> > > withoun Crystal designer runtime library because IIS6 cannot prevent a
> > > report from being exported. The fact that the 0kb file exists shows that
> > the
> > > user identity used by Crystal designer runtime allows the file to be
> > written
> > > to that directory -- why Crystal designer does not write the full report
> > to
> > > the file -- that is a question to ask of Crystal designer runtime
> support
> > > team.
> > >
> > > --
> > > //David
> > > IIS
> > > http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
> > > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> > rights.
> > > //
> > > "Sunil DHURVE" <Sunil DHURVE@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > > news:FD2AA17B-440F-4BE6-8BF7-C91A49D46FDA@microsoft.com...
> > > Hello, i am having a ASP application which uses crystal designer runtime
> > > library to display crystal reports. it works perfectly fine with IIS5
> > under
> > > dllhost.exe architecture as the IIS6 has got a worker processor model it
> > > IIS6
> > > doesnt allow the crystal DLL to export the report to a directory, it
> > creates
> > > teh file but the file is of 0KB and it is locked so i think somehow i
> have
> > > to
> > > let IIS6 know that let crystal dll export the report.
> > > do you know where can i set this option or configuration please let me
> > konw
> > > thanks in advance
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>

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