Re: Create a writable folder in aspnet setup project

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From: roger (xrsr_at_rogerware.com)
Date: 10/23/04 

Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 05:50:31 GMT

For the record,

I don't know whether this qualifies as clever or stupid,
but what I decided to do just use Process.Start to run
a cacls command from my custom install action in order
to manipulate the permissions for the folder in question.

Good enough for my purposes.

roger <xrsr@rogerware.com> wrote in news:Xns958887090C336rsrrogerwarecom@
204.127.199.17:

> Thanks for that tip.
>
> However, when I load the activeds type library into my solution,
> The symbols that I see in the ActiveDs namespace don't match
> up with the code that this example shows.
>
> According to the properties for the ActiveDs type library that I see,
> it's version 1.0. Perhaps I have an older version than this example
> assumes or something.
>
>
> I've got Windows 2000 SP4, the .NET 1.1 framework,
> and Visual Studio 2003.
>
> I'll need to study more about ActiveDs to figure out what's up.
>
> Unless anyone has any ideas....
>
>
> "Naveen K Kohli" <naveenkohli@hotmail.com> wrote in
> news:OwaxIdjtEHA.3292@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl:
>
>> Goto the following link and there you will find an example on how to
>> change permisisons on a file object. Use the same method for folder.
>>
>> http://www.netomatix.com/DirectoryServices.aspx
>>
>> Naveen Kohli
>>
>> "roger" <xrsr@rogerware.com> wrote in message
>> news:Xns95877AA454A1Drsrrogerwarecom@63.240.76.16...
>>> I've created a web setup project for my aspnet app, and added
>>> a web folder item "tmp" to the File System editor under the web
>>> application folder.
>>> (My app uses this folder for generating image files and such)
>>>
>>> Problem is, I can't figure out how to make this folder writable by
>>> the ASPNET user during installation.I've set the writable property
>>> for the new folder object, but it doesn't give the permission to
>>> the ASPNET user.
>>>
>>>
>>> I thought to try and create a custom install action and manipulate
>>> the directory permissions in there, but I can't figure out
>>> how to change the current access permissions of an existing
>>> directory. Alternatively, I could just create the tmp folder in the
>>> custom action, but I don't see how to specify the permissions when
>>> creating a directory. I see the FileStream constructor takes a
>>> FileAccess argument, but I don't see any mechanism to pass one of
>>> those to Directory.CreateDirectory...
>>>
>>>
>>> Any help appreciated..
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

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