"Barry Clark" <b.clark.DeleteThis@clinmed.gla.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> This is a probably a newbie question, so apologies in advance. I'm
running
> Win2K server and IIS 5. I have a Delphi CGI EXE program which I would
like
> to be able to call from an ASP page to create folders on the server
(outwith
> the WEB site) to hold student documents, but I'm having problems
> configuring the permissions. I've disabled the FSO for security reasons
> hence the reason for using Delphi. Is it possible to configure IIS5 to
> allow this, without compromising security?
It's not really a change to the IIS configuration but rather making sure the
appropriate account has the right NTFS permissions to the "root" folder
where you're trying to create sub folders.
Start here:
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2090" target="_blank">http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2090</a>
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