Controlling an individual Virtual Directory's security

From: Mike Warden (mikew_at_estimation.co.uk)
Date: 07/22/05

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    I am new to ISS, and must admit Windows security is a bit of a mystery to me
    also, but I'm trying to write a .NET Web Service that programatically
    creates new Virtual Directories as required off an existing pre-defined
    Virtual Directory.

    The service works fine when I edit the "Default Web Site" Directory Security
    Anonymous access settings to run as my own (admin rights) user, but I don't
    really want to grant everything under the entire web site my rights, so I
    put it back to IUSER_MyComputerName, and instead set the Directory Security
    settings of my pre-defined Virtual Directory. The service then fails with
    "Access is denied".

    Am I misunderstanding something?

    BTW: I'm running IIS 5.1 locally under Windows XP Pro SP2.

    Any assistance much appreciated,
    Mike Warden

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