"Bill" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> To All:
>
> I recently upgraded to Server 2003 from NT
> 4.0.....During the upgrade it upgraded me from IIS 5.0 to
> IIS 6.0. Now I can call my perl scripts, but for some
> reason I have lost the ability to create a directory or
> create a files. Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Bill
>

>-----Original Message-----
>Hi Bill,
>
>If I understand your perl script is creating directories
and files.
>
>Check your NTFS permissions. If this is public website
(anonymous access)
>you will have to e.g. five IUSR_<server-name> account
permissions to create
>these files and folders (it does depend on how you wrote
your script -- but
>if you didn't specify any other account to run this under
and site is
>anonymous, then IUSR is the account IIS will use to
create this files and
>folders). IIS will honor NTFS permissions. If IUSR only
has e.g. read
>permissions on folder where your web content is, it will
not be able to
>create new files and folders. Be careful how much
permissions you give IUSR
>account.
>
>I hope this helps,
>
>Mike
>
>"Bill" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:05c801c49f8e$2e124c20$a601280a@phx.gbl...
>> To All:
>>
>> I recently upgraded to Server 2003 from NT
>> 4.0.....During the upgrade it upgraded me from IIS 5.0
to
>> IIS 6.0. Now I can call my perl scripts, but for some
>> reason I have lost the ability to create a directory or
>> create a files. Does anyone have any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bill
>>
>
>
>.