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How do I start a local application from within a web form?
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| Phillip N Rounds 2005-11-29, 7:03 pm |
| What I would like to do is to have a console application on my server
started when a user performs a specific action on a web form. Specifically,
MyConsoleApp overwrites an existing file with updated info.
MyConsoleApp.exe works just fine and I believe the codewhich calls the
MyConsoleApp.exe (below) is correct. This process fails, with an error:
Access is denied
User Account MyComputer\ASPNET
This makes sense, my computer shouldn't permit an unknown user to write to
my disk. Do I have to create a user account ASPNET and give write
permission in the appropriate directory to this user?
Is trying to do this such a horrendous idea that I should find a different
approach?
Thanks
Phil
I have the following in an appropriate place in my web form:
System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo ProcInfo = new
ProcessStartInfo("c:\\MyConsoleApp.exe", null );
ProcInfo.UseShellExecute = true;
System.Diagnostics.Process Proc = new Process();
Proc.StartInfo = ProcInfo;
Proc.Start();
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| Charles 2005-11-29, 7:03 pm |
| add the ASPNET user to the permissions of the folder. Give it read and
write and you should be good to go
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| Charles 2005-11-29, 7:03 pm |
| By the way, the username ASPNET already exists by default, the user
that is used can be set in the machine.config
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| Juan T. Llibre 2005-11-29, 7:03 pm |
| re:
> Do I have to create a user account ASPNET and give write permission in the appropriate directory
> to this user?
IIRC, you need to run the process with an account
that has permission to access the directory's or file objects.
Look into running MyConsoleApp as ( using runas ) the ASPNET account
(if you gave the necessary permissions to the ASPNET account)
or as any account you want to, as long as it has R/W/M permissions
to the directories/files you need to access/modify.
See :
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...n-us/runas.mspx
Probably something like this :
System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo ProcInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("runas /user:MyComputer\account
c:\\MyConsoleApp.exe", null );
Juan T. Llibre
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"Phillip N Rounds" <prounds@cassandragroup.com> wrote in message
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> What I would like to do is to have a console application on my server started when a user performs
> a specific action on a web form. Specifically,
> MyConsoleApp overwrites an existing file with updated info. MyConsoleApp.exe works just fine and I
> believe the codewhich calls the MyConsoleApp.exe (below) is correct. This process fails, with
> an error:
> Access is denied
> User Account MyComputer\ASPNET
>
> This makes sense, my computer shouldn't permit an unknown user to write to my disk. Do I have to
> create a user account ASPNET and give write permission in the appropriate directory to this user?
> Is trying to do this such a horrendous idea that I should find a different approach?
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>
> Thanks
>
> Phil
>
> I have the following in an appropriate place in my web form:
> System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo ProcInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("c:\\MyConsoleApp.exe",
> null );
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> ProcInfo.UseShellExecute = true;
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> System.Diagnostics.Process Proc = new Process();
>
> Proc.StartInfo = ProcInfo;
>
> Proc.Start();
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