aspworker - ASPNET user

[Thai]

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

[gijsj]

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.