NETWORK SERVICE Permissions on Shared Drive

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Hi,

We have a file placed at a shared location.
PLanning to use it from a .NET page to read contents.

Can we provide permissions to NETWORK SERVICE so that the file is accessible from .NET.

I added NETWORK SERVICE as a user on the shared folder but not able to access.

The file is accessible when I impersonate my ID in Web.Config.
But certainly I cannot use my id for Production environment.

Posted 30-Jan-13 9:50am

Ashok26

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ZurdoDev · Answer 1 · 2013-01-30T10:59:00

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You need to find out what account the Application Pool is set to run as. In IIS, find the app pool your site is in and find the account that is running it. That is the account that needs the permissions.

Posted 30-Jan-13 10:59am

ZurdoDev

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Ashok26 3-Feb-13 18:52pm

Just to make sure I checked it again. App pool is using identity NETWORK SERVICE and I have given NETWORK SERVICE the permissions on the shared folder. Still Access is denied.

ZurdoDev 4-Feb-13 7:47am

So, is impersonate set to false in your web.config?

Ashok26 24-May-13 6:24am

Yes.
I do not impersonate. I had even tried to add user with server name and aspnet.

Now, I got to know there is a special format to add $ at end. Need to try that.

ZurdoDev 24-May-13 8:21am

What identity is your app pool using?

Ashok26 22-Jul-13 19:22pm

This is what I tried:
Creating a user account and providing permissions on shared drive
Impersonate using this account. In order to make it work, I had to provide few permissions on folders on web server.
It works but there is an issue: After first download, next downloads start failing with an error of "Connection with the server was reset". It allows the complete file to be downloaded to client before the error. I think the file is not getting copied finally from temporary location to the client's selected location.

ZurdoDev 22-Jul-13 20:52pm

I don't know for sure but this error can sometimes be ignored. If it is downloading properly you should be fine. It depends on the code you are using. If you are modifying the Response object then yes, this error could be OK.