"Vinnie L" <VinnieL@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> How can we manage the ability to allow/disallow web developers to give the
> ability to users to Write to files/directories. There has been discussions
> around this issue where a FP developer has the setting to have Anonymous
> Write to a file greyed out. The response was that that's the setting
> determined by the hosting company. What setting is that on the server? Is is
> a registry setting, a Administration Web setting? I can't seem to find it.
> Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks
>
>

wrote:
> I would've thought that someone from the FrontPage Client or FrontPage Server
> Extens forum would be able to answer this because of the tight relationship
> between the technologies but apparantly not.
> Can someone in this forum address this?
> BTW I tried the adjust the NTFS permissions of the anonymous user to no avail.
>
> =========================================
>
> Suggest you post this tot he Windows Server newsgroup, as it deal with IUSER
> permissions.
>
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> ==============================================
> Thomas A. Rowe
> Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
>
> http://www.Ecom-Data.com
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> "Vinnie L" <Vinn...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> > How can we manage the ability to allow/disallow web developers to give the
> > ability to users to Write to files/directories. There has been discussions
> > around this issue where a FP developer has the setting to have Anonymous
> > Write to a file greyed out. The response was that that's the setting
> > determined by the hosting company. What setting is that on the server? Is is
> > a registry setting, a Administration Web setting? I can't seem to find it.
> > Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.
> > Thanks- Hide quoted text -
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"David Wang" wrote:

> What you want to do is possible. But, the behavior you describe
> completely depends on the server-side application you use. There is no
> server setting to allow/disallow uploads.
>
> IIS does not know about "FP developers", "anonymous users", nor
> "download/upload". IIS only knows to execute code to generate a
> response for every single request using some NT user token", and IIS
> only executes code which either:
> 1. directly opens a file and sends it as is (Static File Handler)
> 2. loads a Win32 DLL and invokes HttpExtensionProc (ISAPI Handler)
> 3. launches a new process for CGI EXE (CGI Handler)
> 4. handles WebDAV commands
>
> Controlling user delegation of permissions to write on the local
> filesystem is certainly possible, but it all depends on how the server-
> side application authenticates and authorizes access to functionality.
> And all of that has very little to do with IIS - at the root of it
> all, the server-side application just tells IIS to "use this NT user
> token and execute this piece of my code".
>
> In other words, the behavior you are asking for is closer to
> provisioning web server access, which can be done with special
> software for web servers. Generic web server is necessary for the
> complete solution, but it is not that piece of software.
>
>
> //David
> http://w3-4u.blogspot.com
> http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
> //
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> On May 22, 8:57 am, Vinnie L <Vinn...@discussions.microsoft.com>
> wrote:
> > I would've thought that someone from the FrontPage Client or FrontPage Server
> > Extens forum would be able to answer this because of the tight relationship
> > between the technologies but apparantly not.
> > Can someone in this forum address this?
> > BTW I tried the adjust the NTFS permissions of the anonymous user to no avail.
> >
> > =========================================
> >
> > Suggest you post this tot he Windows Server newsgroup, as it deal with IUSER
> > permissions.
> >
> > --
> > ==============================================
> > Thomas A. Rowe
> > Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
> >
> > http://www.Ecom-Data.com
> > ==============================================
> >
> > "Vinnie L" <Vinn...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >
> > news:E19FF2CF-0E5B-41CE-BA9D-DC5E5016D00B@microsoft.com...
> >
> >
> >
> > > How can we manage the ability to allow/disallow web developers to give the
> > > ability to users to Write to files/directories. There has been discussions
> > > around this issue where a FP developer has the setting to have Anonymous
> > > Write to a file greyed out. The response was that that's the setting
> > > determined by the hosting company. What setting is that on the server? Is is
> > > a registry setting, a Administration Web setting? I can't seem to find it.
> > > Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.
> > > Thanks- Hide quoted text -
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