ASP read only error

[Ralph]

I am not sure that I am in the right newsgroup for this, but I am going to
give it a try.

I am running windows xp, frontpage 2003, IIS 5.1 and hosting a practice site
on my machine using localhost for testing.

I have created a number of asp pages using vbscript to access a database
(*.mdb). I have no trouble reading and displaying the content on my web
pages; however, when I try to update the database, I get a read only error.

I have gone into the control panel, administrative tools, IIs, websites and
changed everything to read, write and execute even though I got warnings
that this is dangerous. (I did this even to the wwwroot directory to make
sure I didn't miss anything. I have also used Windows Explorer to make sure
all read only attributes were unset.

Does anyone have an idea what I am missing that makes me get a "readonly"
error?

Ralph

 

[p c]

You are on the right track. The problem is is with the (Windows)
File/directory permissions assigned to the Windows user account used by
IIS. The user account used by IIS will depend on the type of
authentication settings you selected for the web site in IIS.

Add the user accounts, below, to the the directory where you put the MDB
file with change permissions.

IUSR_<machine name> (Internet Guest Account)
IWAM_<machine name> (Launch IIS Process Account)

...PC