Possible Frontpage Permission Problem: ASP VBSCRIPT FRONTPAGE

Possible Frontpage Permission Problem

I've taken over a website from a guy who hosted it on his own personal server - I lease a Server from '1 & 1' - the site uses ASP/VBSCRIPT and because i'm now hosting it on a leased server, some of the the techniques the guy was able to use on his own server don't seem to be permissible.

The problem I have occurs when I try to generate a directory listing from of a particular folder. The code fragment is attached, when it executes I get the following error message:-

Scripting.FileSystemObject error '80040401'

Permission Denied

/member/agenda.asp, line 484

I've tried alll the obvious things such as setting the permissions on the folders, making sure that the path is correct etc. I'm stumped, as is the ISP (who blame it on the script).

It's the line

set folder = fs.GetFolder(path)

which seems to be the problem.

I've explored the VBSCRIPT side of things and can't find any obvious problems - what I'm wondering is this - I used Frontpage to upload the site to the webspace from a copy of the site on CD therefore all the folders were created by Frontpage - could this be causing the permissions problem?

sub ListFolderContents(path)
		
     dim fs, folder, file, item, url
 
     set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
     set folder = fs.GetFolder(path)
 
'Display the target folder and info.
 
     Response.Write(typex & vbCrLf)
 
     Response.Write("</td></tr><tr><td><table>" & vbCrLf)
 
'Display a list of sub folders.
 
     for each item in folder.SubFolders
 
		ListFolderContents(item.Path)
 
     next
 
'Display a list of files.
 
     for each item in folder.Files
     
     	url = MapURL(item.path)
       	Response.Write("<tr><td><a href=""" & url & """ target=""_new"">" _
         & item.Name & "</a> - " _
         & item.DateLastModified & ".</td>" _
         & "</tr>" & vbCrLf)
         
     next
     
     Response.Write("</table></td></tr>" & vbCrLf)
 
end sub

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