creating a user profile for the aspnet user

[Andy Fish]

Hi,

I have an asp.net web app that needs to invoke MS word. I have given the
ASPNET user the relevant privileges and eveything works fine. However, I
notice I now have "c:\my documents" and "c:\application data" owned by
ASPNET which I presume is because it doesn't have it's own user profile.

Obviously the password is controlled by windows so I can't just login
interactively and create a profile for this user. Is there any way round it
or do I just live with these directories being where they are?

my target platform is win2003 server so I guess the account I'm actually
concerned about will be "NETWORK SERVICE"

TIA

Andy

[Thomas McFarlane]

You would leave them as default (Local Policy): Deny logon locally to ASPNET
account. Allow both logon as a "service".

Tom

"Andy Fish" <ajfish@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:OnfchHZvEHA.536@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

> Hi,
>
> I have an asp.net web app that needs to invoke MS word. I have given the
> ASPNET user the relevant privileges and eveything works fine. However, I
> notice I now have "c:\my documents" and "c:\application data" owned by
> ASPNET which I presume is because it doesn't have it's own user profile.
>
> Obviously the password is controlled by windows so I can't just login
> interactively and create a profile for this user. Is there any way round
> it or do I just live with these directories being where they are?
>
> my target platform is win2003 server so I guess the account I'm actually
> concerned about will be "NETWORK SERVICE"
>
> TIA
>
> Andy
>
>
>

[Andy Fish]

sorry, I'm not sure I understand how this would help

my problem is that I want to create a user profile for this user but I still
want windows to control the password, so I can't log on interactively to
create the user profile

"Thomas McFarlane" <TM@HotMeal.Com> wrote in message
news:uM0IdhZvEHA.716@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...

> You would leave them as default (Local Policy): Deny logon locally to
> ASPNET account. Allow both logon as a "service".
>
> Tom
>
> "Andy Fish" <ajfish@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:OnfchHZvEHA.536@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

>> Hi,
>>
>> I have an asp.net web app that needs to invoke MS word. I have given the
>> ASPNET user the relevant privileges and eveything works fine. However, I
>> notice I now have "c:\my documents" and "c:\application data" owned by
>> ASPNET which I presume is because it doesn't have it's own user profile.
>>
>> Obviously the password is controlled by windows so I can't just login
>> interactively and create a profile for this user. Is there any way round
>> it or do I just live with these directories being where they are?
>>
>> my target platform is win2003 server so I guess the account I'm actually
>> concerned about will be "NETWORK SERVICE"
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Andy
>>
>>
>>

>
>