Re: Uploading web service

From: Manohar Kamath (mkamath_at_TAKETHISOUTkamath.com)
Date: 03/04/05 

Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 07:21:45 -0600

You can still impersonate, but use one account -- domain or local, which has
access to the network share. You can encrypt the username and password and
store it in registry using aspnet_setreg utility. Here's the info:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;329290

Hope that helps. 

-- 
Manohar Kamath
Editor, .netWire
www.dotnetwire.com
"Ramesh Chawla" <rameh28th@rediffmail.com> wrote in message
news:71D58A99-22E0-4521-A433-E740D0AB7B58@microsoft.com...
> I am making a web service which accesses a shared directory on the netwoek
to
> upload a file there. Here comes the problem, When I use impersonation and
> give the userName & password of an authenticated user, then it works fine
but
> when I impersonate, using ASPNET account of the machine where web service
is
> being hosted then the whole uploading process fails. As, it also exposes
the
> password in clear text format, it is also not acceptable. Also, if I make
a
> group on the machine where directory is shared, then again I cannot add
the
> ASPNET user account of the machine where web service being hosted, in that
> usergroup.
>
> So is there any solution for the above problem? All the suggestions and
> queries are welcome.
> -- 
> Thanks & Regards,
> Ramesh

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