This question was asked earlier, look through the archives. The long and the short of it is you need to run the CFservice under an account other than the local system. You need to run it under an account with access to the mapped drive/UNC path....
Brook At 04:27 PM 12/10/2002 -0800, you wrote: >I'm trying to build an app that reads a file off a network drive. > >As a user, I have permission to access this drive, but apparently, my >localhost CF server does not have permission. I'm getting this error: > >Error processing CFFILE >Error attempting to read 'j:\PRE1208.TXT.' Access is denied. (error 5) >The error occurred while processing an element with a general identifier of >(CFFILE), occupying document position (8:1) to (8:64) in the template file > > >So the question is, how do I configure things to give CF permission to read >this file? Chaning the permissions on the network drive is not an option. >I need some way to have CF tell the drive, "Hey, I'm running on the machine >of Howard Owens and I'm cool." > >H. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
