Question

I am trying to publish a web site to a network location, and I’m getting access denied. I know its not an issue with the feature, as I published to a different network location OK. So what permissions are needed for this feature to work?

Thanks.

Answer 1

If you try to run your web site as it is WITHOUT precompilation, by browsing to http://localhost/website/ , you will see an error message to what you are seeing when you try to publish. This is because the identity needs both read and write access to the Temporary ASP.NET Files folder.

A possible workaround is for you to grant read/write permissions to the current used account to the Temporary ASP.NET Files folder.

By default, when you compile a Web application the compiled code is placed in the Temporary ASP.NET Files folder. This folder is a subdirectory of the location where you installed the .NET framework. Typically, the location is the following:
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%SystemRoot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\versionNumber\Temporary ASP.NET Files

The .NET installation process creates the Temporary ASP.NET Files folder and assigns access permissions to the ASP.NET local user account, which has the high-trust permissions needed to access your compiled code.