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Hello,
I have read that the aspworker uses by default the user "ASPNET", this user does not have access to network resources on my domain. Is there a way to change the user to a domain account so it can access network resources? I tried changing the setting in machine.cfg to "system" but that still does not work. I have also tried to put in "mydomain\myusername" and that does not work either. Any help would be appreciated, thank you.
Thai
That's right, you can set the credentials of the aspnet_wp process in the machine.config file, in the <processModel> element.
But I strongly advice you not to change it to an account with network access. This means that all request handled by aspnet_isapi.dll will have network access. From a security point of view that's really bad !
If certain functionality within your Web App needs network access you could put that functionality within a COM+ Server Application and set its identity, then you only enable the specified account/identity to have access to that specific network resource and nothing else.