asked on 7/21/2008

Create Folder on Remote Server using ASP/IIS 6

I have a classic ASP application that I am working on for my helpdesk staff to use to create users in AD. Everything works great except for the piece that creates the users home folder on a remote file server. I can get it to work using Firefox, but it will not work in IE 6 or 7. I have a virtual folder under my root website that is using anon. authentication with a domain user that has rights to create folders where I keep my user's home folders. Looking through security logs on my file server, it looks like IE is not using the anon account when connecting to my file server, but firefox does. I really need this to work in IE.

Just using the scripting.filesystemobject. strHomeFolder is a variable that is set earlier in the script. Gets set to \\server\users_share\username

Again, this works in firefox, so I believe the code is correct.

Set objFS = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
 objFS.CreateFolder(strHomeFolder)

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jvincent9

7/28/2008

bui_trung_hieu

7/21/2008

The ASP Code runs on server-side while IE or FF is client's browser. So there cannot be any relation between them in this problem.

Please try checking whether the folder you want to create exists or not.

Set objFS = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
 
if objFS.FolderExists(strHomeFolder)=true then
  response.write("Folder " & strHomeFolder & " exists!")
else
  objFS.CreateFolder(strHomeFolder)
end if

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jvincent9

7/21/2008

ASKER

Thanks bui_trung_hieu

That didn't work. The folder to be created definitely do not exist. I have a custom 501 error page setup that emails me when I get 500 server error pages. It tells me "Permission Denied" It almost acts like IE doesn't push the credentials setup in the anonymous settings (it is a domain user with full access to the folder in question), but firefox does. When using firefox, I can see the logon in the security event log where the user I have setup logs on, but when I run the asp page in IE, all I see is anonymous logon, not the user I have specified.

effx

7/22/2008

Ok the issue is that your logged on as a domain user, in IE this will send the details of the currently logged on user which is available under Request.ServerVariables("LOGON_USER") if you allow a single user to update instead of the anon user this will fix the problem.

jvincent9

7/22/2008

ASKER

Have tried that too... I am logged onto my windows workstation with my domain account, which has domain admin priveledges, and full access to the file server in question.

I'm leaning more towards an IIS 6 issue rather than a coding issue at this point, seeing the page will work properly in firefox.

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effx

7/22/2008

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jvincent9

7/28/2008

ASKER

I resolved the issue by changing the directory security in IIS to basic only. This prompts for the AD account to login with, and seems to pass that login informaiton off to the file server where I need to create my folders. I know it is not the most secure way, but I have HTTPS enabled on the site, with one of our internal certificates.