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Asked: 2026-05-12T13:19:14+00:00

I’m running into a (hopefully) small issue. I have a web app written in

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I’m running into a (hopefully) small issue. I have a web app written in ASP.NET, that will be running off of a Windows 2003 Server machine using IIS 6.0. When I run it locally, it works perfect. When I run it from the server, the site works fine. The issue lies in writing to a remote folder. I have a network folder using AD permissions that the application writes to. With my AD account (when I write it locally) it authenticates properly, but when using the IIS account it does not. Has anyone come across this? Any solutions available?

So far, I’ve tried using my AD account as the “Guest Account” in IIS that the site runs off of, but that still didn’t work.

Any thoughts, explanations, or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

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  1. Editorial Team

    The way I normally tackle these situations is to do a couple of steps.

    • In AD create an account for the service.
    • Add this account to the network share you wish to access.
    • Then have your ASP.Net application run using that service account instead of the local IIS account.

    • In your web.config file you put the following line under

      <system.web>
       <identity impersonate="true"/>
      </system.web>

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