C# Asp.NET Internal Web App: Copy file from a different local server

Question

My internal web app is on server //tom... but i need to upload a file from server //jerry..

while fileupload.saveas works just great to bring the file locally on //tom, when i try to send it back to //jerry, it tells me that access is denied. I tried to give permissions to //jerry/users to do everything but still nothing.

what is the user/group that a web app resting on //tom would be ?

in my code behind i even tried FIle.Copy (..). file.move etc.. but it tells me that access is denied to that particular file from //jerry...

what can i do ?

PS: when i run the web app locally (localhost), everything works just fine, the problem happens only when i go live...

Answer 1

This sounds like a permissions issue. When you run the app locally, it's most likely running under your account but on the server it usually defaults to the NetworkService account, which probably isn't in the network domain. You'll likely need to create a domain account to run your application under, either that or impersonate the user's domain account if they have access to the directory.