DeveloperBarn

Hi All,

I'm not sure why this is happening and need some help....

I have a virtual directory with a folder name, files. I'm trying to give one person permissions to drop files in this folder but still keep getting Access Denied.

It will work for me when I have it mapped as:
\\servername\d$

but not as:
\\servername\virtualfolder\files

Any reason why? I don't want to have the user go to inetpub\...etc.

are they accessing this locally or via FTP? you should be able to set up a ftp account for just that folder, or share that folder over the network, this can be done independently to your virtual folder setup (i.e. ftp to the physical folder which is mapped as a virtual folder) im pretty sure anyway for windows systems (are you using a windows server?)

Hi drRock

we're all on the same network internally....
yes, windows 2000 server.

if its a folder in the virtual directory, is this ok? share on shared tab or security tab?

would it be better if i moved this out of a virtual directory?

Thanks for your help!

Just treat it like a normal folder, you could even set up ftp to the folder and get it working THEN make it a virtual folder of your website

Hi dr_rock

Ok...didn't want to do the ftp thing with this user...but I was finally able to get it with using shared and security tabs.

on the shared, for the shared name i put $ after name...ex: mysharedfolder$
permissions is for everyone here.

then on security, i added the group (with user) and set it to Full control.

now mapped....\\servername\vd\mysharedfolder$

Thanks for your help!

Are you sure you want them to have Full Control?

Typically, in this situation, I give the Everyone group Full Control with Share permissions and then make it more secure with NTFS permissions on the security tab. If you give them Full Control on NTFS, then they will be able to change just about anything. It's best to give them only what they need.

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Hi JMH,

Ok, yes the shared is like you said.

But on the NTFS security tab, yes, i have the group (with 1 user) to full control. I need him to be able to drop files there. But this directory also has to be read accessible because I have it linked from webpage for viewing. Ok...I'll go back and take full control off and see if that will work.

Thanks!

If you only need that group to drop files, give them Modify permissions.