Permission to write to local disk on a Webservice...

[Raul Cortes]

I have been developing winforms for a while.

I had an app, that downlods exchange rates from an html page from a website,
creating a dataset, and then writing the xml to the local drive.
Basically, when I need an old exchange rate, I already have it on my
dataset,
and whenever there is a new exchange rate, I have to do the access to the
html page...
Now I tried to make a webservice that will return an exchange rate for a
particular date,
and if works fine, as long as i don't write the xml file.
This is quite important, because if I can do so, I will record the exchange
rate,
and then next time I need it, I just pick it up...
I have been reading about permissions, but this is some right I have to give
to the webservice itself, not to my webservice user..
Thanks in advance

[Peter Bromberg [C# MVP]]

Yes. Your webservice, like any ASP.NET - hosted web application, runs under
an account that typically does not have the permissions you need, for
security reasons.

You can easily modify the user account by adding:

<identity impersonate="true" userName="userThatCanWrite" password="password"
/>

to your web.config.
--Peter
"Raul Cortes" <no****@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:Ox**************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

I have been developing winforms for a while.

I had an app, that downlods exchange rates from an html page from a
website,
creating a dataset, and then writing the xml to the local drive.
Basically, when I need an old exchange rate, I already have it on my
dataset,
and whenever there is a new exchange rate, I have to do the access to the
html page...
Now I tried to make a webservice that will return an exchange rate for a
particular date,
and if works fine, as long as i don't write the xml file.
This is quite important, because if I can do so, I will record the
exchange rate,
and then next time I need it, I just pick it up...
I have been reading about permissions, but this is some right I have to
give
to the webservice itself, not to my webservice user..
Thanks in advance

[Raul Cortes]

Thank you Peter, that is exactly what I was looking for!!!!
Raul

"Peter Bromberg [C# MVP]" <pb*******@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:OJ**************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

Yes. Your webservice, like any ASP.NET - hosted web application, runs
under an account that typically does not have the permissions you need,
for security reasons.

You can easily modify the user account by adding:

<identity impersonate="true" userName="userThatCanWrite"
password="password" />

to your web.config.
--Peter
"Raul Cortes" <no****@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:Ox**************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

I have been developing winforms for a while.

I had an app, that downlods exchange rates from an html page from a
website,
creating a dataset, and then writing the xml to the local drive.
Basically, when I need an old exchange rate, I already have it on my
dataset,
and whenever there is a new exchange rate, I have to do the access to the
html page...
Now I tried to make a webservice that will return an exchange rate for a
particular date,
and if works fine, as long as i don't write the xml file.
This is quite important, because if I can do so, I will record the
exchange rate,
and then next time I need it, I just pick it up...
I have been reading about permissions, but this is some right I have to
give
to the webservice itself, not to my webservice user..
Thanks in advance