Re: Permission denied on .exe

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From: David Wang [Msft] (someone_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/05/04 

Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 22:18:35 -0800

This behavior is by design.

If you give "Script and Executables" execute permission, you are instructing
IIS to interpret URLs for .EXE files as "execute this EXE on the server".
If you give any other execute permission, such as "Scripts" or "None", you
are instructing IIS to interpret URLs for .EXE files as "download this
file".

People tend to either want to download OR execute a EXE file when they give
a URL. This configuration option gives that choice. 

-- 
//David
IIS
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
//
"JoKo" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4D52AB6D-D034-4ADD-A50C-44CDFC625C59@microsoft.com...
actually...
that was the problem, it was set to script and executables
when i changed it to just script it works fine now.
It seems it took .exe and was trying to run it instead of give download, and
IIS denied the .exe
but thanks for pointing me in the right direction!!!

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