"David Wang" <w3.4you@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> I am running our .net application while logged
>> in to the server via remote desktop as an
>> administrator, so I would expect the application
>> to be running with administrative privileges and
>> therefore be able to read/write to metabase.xml.
>
> Incorrect assumption that the .net application is running with
> administrative privileges.
>
> Only IF you know that the application is either:
> 1. directly impersonating a user with administrative privileges, OR
> 2. if the .Net application is keeping the impersonated Windows user
> identity AND IIS is authenticating
>
> Then you know that a user token with administrative privileges is used
> by the application.
>
>
> My other question -- is this on a 64bit machine and if so, is the
> worker process configured to run as 32bit? Because a 32bit ASP.Net
> application is not allowed to touch "C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv
> \MetaBase.xml" on a 64bit machine. Search my blog for "WOW64" or
> "64bit" reference to understand more about the expected behavior and
> how to work with it.
>
>
> My recommendation is to not rely on editing metabase.xml to configure
> IIS because it is not supported as a "programmatic interface". You
> will see on IIS7 that metabase.xml is deprecated already.
>
>
> //David
> http://w3-4u.blogspot.com
> http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
> //
>
>
>
> On Jan 28, 2:22 pm, "Tessa" <nospam> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have to modify an existing .net windows application that directly edits
>> the IIS6 metabase.
>> (I don't have the option of deciding to use ADSI/WMI in a Script because
>> it's an existing application).
>>
>> It's been working fine for a long time up to now on our test servers and
>> our
>> customers' servers (Windows 2003), but now when I've been testing
>> recently
>> it I get the error
>> "Could not find file 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\MetaBase.xml'" when the
>> application tries to read from or write to the metabase.
>>
>> I have checked - the file is present in the expected location, the Enable
>> edit while running flag is on in IIS manager,
>> the ntfs permissions on the file are for Administrators and SYSTEM to
>> have
>> full control to metabase.xml, and I am running our .net application while
>> logged in to the server via remote desktop as an administrator, so I
>> would
>> expect the application to be running with administrative privileges and
>> therefore be able to read/write to metabase.xml.
>>
>> Why is this happening and what do I need to do to fix it?
>>
>> Thanks for any help
>>
>> Tessa
>